Psychological evaluation can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. The broad sense refers to the evaluation of various psychological and behavioral problems, which can be applied in the fields of medicine, psychology and sociology. It is mainly used to evaluate behavior, cognitive ability, personality traits and the characteristics of individuals and groups, and to help make judgments, predictions and decisions about people.
psychological evaluation in a narrow sense, also called clinical evaluation, refers to the use of professional psychological methods and techniques in the field of psychological clinic and consultation to make corresponding judgments on the psychological status, personality characteristics and mental health of visitors, make correct explanations when necessary, and conduct comprehensive analysis and appraisal on this basis, so as to provide the necessary premise and guarantee for psychological consultation and treatment.
At this stage, the evaluation task is to collect the relevant information of visitors, and make a preliminary judgment on the problem state and background information of visitors to identify whether they accept the psychological counseling and treatment provided by the institution, especially those visitors who have obvious mental illness characteristics and need the intervention of professional medical institutions, and need to be evaluated and referred.
initial stage of counseling
in the initial stage of psychological counseling, the counselors are mainly evaluated in three aspects through acceptance and initial interviews.
(1) Evaluation of the basic information of visitors: name, gender, personal experience, family environment, education level and whether they are taking psychotropic drugs;
(2) bother with this and the evaluation of the main problems, psychological state and other materials;
(3) The main problems of visitors and the evaluation of their psychological state.
Mid-term counseling
With the development of psychological counseling, evaluation becomes particularly important. One of the prerequisites for the success of psychological counseling is that the counselor should make clear the direction, goal and plan of counseling. In the process of counseling, the counselor needs to agree with the client on the counseling goal and the adjustment of the later goal, which are based on psychological evaluation.
Late stage of consultation
In the late stage of consultation, the consultation relationship between the two parties is coming to an end. At this time, psychological evaluation can consolidate the problem solving of visitors.
(1) Consultants need to evaluate whether the consulting objectives have been achieved. If the visitors have not changed positively, they need to reflect on the consulting relationship and consulting objectives in the whole consulting process and make adjustments.
(2) The consultant will tell the visitors the results of the evaluation, so that the visitors can know their own changes and promote the consolidation and solution of the problems.
(3) Consultants' evaluation to assess whether the visitors feel dependent on the consultants and feel lost after the consultation.