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Financial Planning and Counseling Scales provides educators, researchers, students, and practitioners with a review of reliable and valid personal assessment scales and instruments, suitable for research and clinical practice. An overview of measurement issues and psychometric evaluation is also included.

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The personal, household, and consumer finance field is growing quite rapidly, especially as universities and policy makers see the need for additional research and clinical application in this dynamic area of study. Currently, the profession is advancing towards the stage where professional practice becomes increasingly evidenced-based. Financial Planning and Counseling Scales provides educators, researchers, students, and practitioners with a much needed review of reliable and valid personal assessment scales and instruments that can be used for both research and clinical practice. In addition to presenting actual scales and instruments with applicable psychometric details, the book also includes an overview of measurement issues and psychometric evaluation.

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Measurement in Practice.-Issues to Consider When Evaluating "Tests".-The Future of Financial Planning and Counseling: An Introduction to Financial Therapy.-Measures of Financially Related Attitudes and Behaviors.-Measures of Financial Knowledge and Management.-Measures of Risk.-Couple and Family Relationship Assessments.-Measures for Professional Aspects of the Financial Helping Relationship

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Professor John E. Grable, CFP© holds the Vera Mowery McAninch Professor of Human Development and Family Studies professorship at Kansas State University. He received his undergraduate degree in economics and business from the University of Nevada, an MBA from Clarkson University, and a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. He is the Certified Financial Plannerä Board of Standards Inc. and International Association of Registered Financial Consultants registered undergraduate and graduate program director at Kansas State University. Dr. Grable also serves as the Director of The Institute of Personal Financial Planning and the Financial Therapy Clinic at K-State. Dr. Grable served as the founding editor for the Journal of Personal Finance, a rigorous peer-reviewed research journal. His research interests include financial risk-tolerance assessment, financial planning help-seeking behavior, and financial therapy/counseling. He has been the recipient of several research and publication awards and grants, and is active in promoting the link between research and financial planning practice where he has published more than 75 refereed papers and co-authored two bestselling financial planning textbooks. Dr. Grable has served on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Registered Financial Consultants (IARFC), as Treasurer for the American Council on Consumer Interests (ACCI), and on the Research Advisory Council of the Take Charge America Institute (TCAI) for Consumer Education and Research at the University of Arizona. In 2004 he won the prestigious Cato Award for Distinguished Journalism in the Field of Financial Services, and in 2006 he was honored with the IARFC Founders Award. In 2007 Dr. Grable was awarded the Dawley-Scholer Award for Faculty Excellence in Student Development.

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