Testing Instruments

Career Counseling Tools:

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator:
For more than 50 years the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) has helped millions of people throughout the world gain a deeper understanding of themselves and how they communicate with others. The instrument determines preferences on four dichotomies: Extraversion-Introversion, Sensing-Intuition, Thinking-Feeling, and Judging-Perceiving. The various combinations of these preferences result in 16 unique personality types. This instruments application promote growth and development in many settings, including:

Business - fosters team building, leadership and organizational development, communication skills, problem solving, conflict management, stress management, career management and outplacement.
Counseling - guides career change and exploration, couples counseling, conflict resolution, and personal growth
Education - identifies learning styles, builds administrator/student/teacher relationships, and aids in analyzing and improving curriculum.

Firo-B:
This test looks at interpersonal needs and the impact of a person's behavior in the workplace. It helps individuals to understand and manage behavior, recognize conflict areas and find solutions through an awareness of interpersonal dynamics. This test can also be used with the Myers-Briggs to assess an individual's leadership style and how others might perceive or react to one's style and what improvements can be made to be a better leader in the workplace.

Campbell's Interest and Skills Survey:
The Campbell Interest and Skill Survey, measures self-reported vocational interests and skills. Similar to traditional interest inventories, the CISS interest scales reflect an individual's attraction for specific occupational areas.

However, the CISS instrument goes beyond traditional inventories by adding parallel skill scales that provide estimates of an individual's confidence in his or her ability to perform various occupational activities. Together, the two types of scales provide more comprehensive, richer data than interest scores alone.

The CISS instrument focuses on careers that require post-secondary education and is most appropriate for use with individuals who are college bound or college educated.

Strong Interest Inventory:
This is a questionnaire that explores a person's level of interest in a wide range of categories including occupations, occupational activities, hobbies, leisure activities, and school subjects. This test can also be taken with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to get more information on what types of careers may fit best with an individual's temperament type.

Temperament testing tools:

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator:
For more than 50 years the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) has helped millions of people throughout the world gain a deeper understanding of themselves and how they communicate with others. The instrument determines preferences on four dichotomies: Extraversion-Introversion, Sensing-Intuition, Thinking-Feeling, and Judging-Perceiving. The various combinations of these preferences result in 16 unique personality types. This instruments application promote growth and development in many settings, including:

Business - fosters team building, leadership and organizational development, communication skills, problem solving, conflict management, stress management, career management and outplacement.
Counseling - guides career change and exploration, couples counseling, conflict resolution, and personal growth
Education - identifies learning styles, builds administrator/student/teacher relationships, and aids in analyzing and improving curriculum.

16PF APQ:
Is your teenager having problems with relationships, emotional problems or educational difficulties? This test will help to understand your teen's personal style, problem solving and work abilities, and how your teen deals with life difficulties. An awareness of these issues can help you and your counselor plan strategies to help your teenager to improve life skills.

Taylor Johnson Temperament Analysis:
The Taylor-Johnson Temperament Analysis (T-JTA), an assessment from Pearson Assessments, measures personality traits that affect an individual's personal and interpersonal adjustment. The T-JTA can be used for individual counseling, and with its unique "criss-cross" feature, it is ideal for counseling couples. The T-JTA profiles are designed to help counselors quickly identify problem areas. The instrument can help individuals better understand themselves and to compare their self-portraits with the perceptions of their spouse.

Premarital/Marital Testing Tools:

Prepare/Enrich:
This test is for premarital and marital couples. It explores the strengths and the growth areas of their relationship. It also allows a couple to discuss family-of-origin issues, helps them to make financial plans, develop couple and personal goals and strengthen communication skills and learn how to resolve conflict.

Other variations of this test are as follows - Prepare MC is for pre-marital couples with children. Prepare CC is for cohabiting couples. Prepare Enrich is for married couples and Prepare MATE is for couples over 50 years old that are considering marriage / re-marriage or a significant life transition.

Miscellaneous other Testing Tools:

State Trait Anger Expression Inventory ( STAXI):
Are you or someone you know dealing with a lot of uncontrolled anger? This test explores how a person experiences and expresses anger. It is a straightforward, brief test with 44 questions and five main scales.

Trauma Symptom Inventory:
This is a 100 question test evaluating Post-traumatic Stress symptoms resulting from rape, assault, natural disasters, abuse and other personal tragedies in an individual's life. This tool measures the extent to which an individual is experiencing trauma.

Beck Depression Inventory:
Do you think you are suffering from depression? This is a quick, inexpensive, self-score test that measures the attitudes and symptoms of depression to determine the extent of the depression.

Psychological Assessments:

MMPI-2 (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2™)
MCMI-III (Millon™ Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III)

The MMPI-2 and the MCMI-III are used in assessment for a wide variety of settings. The test can be used to help:

• Assess major symptoms of social and personal maladjustment.
• Identify suitable candidates for high-risk public safety positions.
• Support classification, treatment, and management decisions in criminal justice and correctional settings.
• Give a strong empirical foundation for a clinician's expert testimony.
• Assess medical patients and design effective treatment strategies, including chronic pain management.
• Evaluate participants in substance abuse programs and select appropriate treatment approaches.
• Support college and career counseling recommendations.
• Provide valuable insight for marriage and family counseling.