Bulletin Summer 2010 Issue Dedicated to Assessment

This edition of the Contact Point Bulletin focuses specially on assessment with articles focusing on selecting and interpreting assessments, as well as specific assessment models. For a full listing of articles see http://www.contactpoint.ca/index.php?view=category&id=99%3Asummer-2010&option=com_content&Itemid=37

PD Online

We're currently running our Personality Dimensions level I facilitator training and bridging workshop through our LearnOnline site. Although our participants work with the paper assessment, CLSR, the assessment publisher, offers an online version of the assessment (click here for more information). With this format, you can have participants take the assessment in advance and focus on the more experiential learning activities during the workshop.

From September 28th - October 4th, CLSR will be making upgrades the PD online software to improve functionality.

Theory and Practice of Group Counseling

As our Group Facilitation Strategies for Career Programs course begins today, we like to share an interesting resource on the topic:

Theory and Practice of Group Counseling by Dr. Gerald Corey.

Keep your eyes peeled for the new revision scheduled to come out January 31st 2011.

Blink

When gathering and analyzing information, it's important to consider the impact of your perceptions and judgements can have. In Gladwell's book Blink, readers learn how snap judgements impact conclusions.

Read more about Gladwell and Blink at http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/02/22/malcolm.gladwell/

Active Engagement: Enhancing the Career Counselling Process

With our Helping Skills course starting up again on September 8th, we'd like to share a recommended reading by Norm Amundson - Active Engagement: Enhancing the Career Counselling Process. This is an award-winning career interventions textbook has been translated into several different languages.

The second and third edition are both available in our Life Strategies Online Store