Counseling Assessment Paper

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Assessment is absolutely a part of counseling; a comprehensive school counseling program would not be a program without the use of assessments. Assessment is used to assess the client’s problem, defining the identified problem, selecting and implementing treatment, and evaluating counseling. Thus, assessment is used all throughout the counseling process. I think assessment makes the most important more at the starting and ending points of counseling. At the start of the counseling process, assessment is used to determine the problem behaviors of the client, so that counseling can be properly implemented to help elevate the problems. If assessment is not used and not used properly at this beginning stage, the process of counseling is impeded