School counselors must demonstrate effectiveness of counseling services in a
cost-effective manner. This article reviews and applies commonly used,
free-access assessment instruments for use with school-aged youth to provide
evidence of effective individual, small-group, and large-group interventions. We
present instruments assessing depression, anxiety, disruptive behavior, and
trauma, so that school counselors can learn basic administration, scoring,
interpretation procedures, and psychometric utility to allow immediate use with
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