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Therapeutic assessment is a short-term intervention in which traditional psychological tests are used collaboratively with clients to help them understand themselves better and find solutions to their persistent problems.

In its underlying philosophy, therapeutic assessment is related to humanistic and human-science psychology, to narrative, interpersonal, and systemic models of psychotherapy, and to intersubjectivity theory. However, therapeutic assessment also uses techniques from many schools of psychotherapy, including cognitive therapy, behavior therapy, psychodynamic therapy, interpersonal therapy, and Gestalt therapy.

In this video, Dr. Stephen E. Finn demonstrates how the core values of therapeutic assessment - collaboration, respect, humility, compassion, openness, and curiosity - are all used to help a client acknowledge and process the dilemma of change and consider viable alternative ways of dealing with difficulties.