EP. 58 ABC Assessments Explained & Applied: Strengthening Data Gathering In The Counseling Room n' Local Church For Leadership Development

In this episode, the hosts, Mike, Shauna, and Jeremy discuss ABC's assessments; how they are built and how they can be utilized in real-time with clients. Also, these assessments can be used in the church context as well for leadership development. There are several categories of assessments, for example, marriage, intimacy, depression, anger, anxiety, money, domestic abuse, substance abuse, parenting, and a myriad of others. They talk about how they use these assessments and give testimony to how they strengthen data-gathering for the counselor and ultimately making it more productive for the clients. Remember to email us at: topics@speakthetruth.org or engage with us on our website - www.speakthetruth.org
Episode Notes: 
  • After 8 or 9 minutes of riffing about being in lockdown with each other, the discussion starts about using assessments in the counseling room and with the local church for leadership development.
  • ABC has a resource page with the assessments broken down into categories such as: 
    • Anger
    • Marriage
    • Sex
    • Intimacy
    • bitterness
    • Money
    • Spiritual Life
    • Substance Abuse
    • Parenting
    • Adultery
    • Domestic Abuse
    • Womanhood, etc.
  • Besides providing excellent training for certifying biblical counselors, ABC is also dedicated to providing, through membership, counselors with enough resources to help. 
    • You can print out one of the resources and hand them right to the client.
    • ABC membership is really a resource hub
    • The assessments help gather data quickly with a Likert Scale

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