Boot Camps are a one time 4 hour comprehensive session. This boot camp is a coaching session specifically for Research and Assessments to assist passing mental health licensure exams.
 
Assessment in Counseling Studies in this area provide an understanding of individual and group approaches to assessment and evaluation in counseling practice, including the following:
a. Theoretical and historical bases for assessment techniques in counseling;
b. Validity, including evidence for establishing content, construct and empirical validity;
c. Reliability, including methods of establishing stability, internal and equivalence reliability;
d. Appraisal methods, including environmental assessment, performance assessment, individual and group test and inventory methods, behavioral observations, and computer-managed and computer-assisted methods;
e. Psychometric statistics, including types of assessment scores, measures of central tendency, indices of variability, standard errors, and correlations;
f. Age, gender, ethnicity, language, disability and cultural factors related to the use of assessment and evaluation in counseling services;
g. Strategies for selecting, administering, interpreting and using assessment and evaluation instruments and techniques in counseling;
 
Research and Program Evaluation Studies in this area provide an understanding of types of research methods, basic statistics, and ethical and legal considerations in research, including the following:
a. Basic types of research methods, including qualitative and quantitative research designs;
b. Basic parametric and nonparametric statistics;
c. Principles, practices, and applications of needs assessment and program evaluation;
d. Uses of computers for data management and analysis; and
e. Ethical and legal considerations.
 
This purchase if for the recording and shared materials from a previous boot camp.