Counseling Text Assessment Paper

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After reading the text it is clear that assessment is a part of counseling. According to our text assessment should be applied through out the counseling process. We must begin by initially assessing the client’s problem(s). This simply means that we must use both formal and informal assessment to get a good and accurate understanding of the individual’s problem. I believe that this is the most crucial part of assessment in the counseling process because if you do not have an accurate understanding of the problem it will negatively impact your counseling. You will not be helping the client in the ways that they need and this could immediately cause your client or student to not feel comfortable with you and the counseling process. The