Future Trends in Counselor Assessments

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Future Trends and Directions

One of the challenges that counselors face is in working with diverse populations. Thus, one trend in counseling to take place has been in counseling and assessing specific populations. Zosuls, Miller, Faith Ruble, Martin & Fabes (2011) examined the developmental trend in the field of research on gender development and assessment. They assert that factors such as biological arguments have been advanced in the literature to justify gender inequality. However, these methods and theories have been used to address biological mechanisms, socialization and cognitive approaches to gender differences.Thus, Zosuls et al. provide a descriptive assessment on gender development utilizing constructs such as sex roles, stereotypes, and gender identity to link these assessments to general trends that have occurred in the study of gender development in the past. The Zosuls et al. study showed that ...