Assessment Tools

Exciting New Profiling Service for Mental Health Professionals

• Are you a mental health professional? 
• Do you provide counseling or career counseling services? 
• Do you work with individuals, couples and or small teams to heal & empower them? 
• Would you like a better tool for identifying each individual’s gifts & contributions?  

 We have an exciting announcement for you. The BTSA, believed by many to be the most powerful single assessment tool for counselors and career counselors, is now available to you and your clients easily, effortlessly and inexpensively. Here’s how. Download and install the electronic version of the BTSA, the eBTSA, from our web site to your home / office computers at no cost. 

Then, simply follow this simple 3-step process: 

1. Have your clients complete the assessment on one of your computers, or, alternatively, have them download, install and complete the eBTSA on their home or office PC. 
2. Send us their eBTSA data file attached to an e-mail. 
3. Receive from us within 24 to 48 hours your client’s 24 to 28 page personalized Feedback. 

It’s that simple! What’s more, as a recognized, active mental health professional, you will be billed just $75 per profile, or 50% of the normal retail price for the electronic assessment. This nominal fee may then be billed directly to your client, their insurance company or EAP. Typically, counselors using the BTSA also bill their clients for the time they themselves devote to reviewing the client’s feedback and discussing that feedback with the client. 

Additionally, we invite you to download and enjoy reading three complimentary articles about The Benziger Breakthrough and its importance to mental health professionals and their clients 

And finally, we invite you to contact us today if you: 

• want to help your client’s jump start counseling 3-6 months, while increasing their personal trust in you. 
• are looking for a new tool to strengthen your ability to help your clients. 
• are currently using another assessment such as the MBTI or HBDI and are looking for something that is better and more helpful. 
• want to talk with Dr. Benziger about how the BTSA helps counselors and clients understand and overcome: stress, depression, irritability, fatigue, burnout, anxiety, career confusion, marital problems. 
• want to request a professional courtesy assessment for yourself. 

Or, contact the local expert closest to you:

Jessie Mercay, Ph.D. Boulder, Colorado

Arlene Taylor, Ph.D. Napa, California

Anne Garcia Knoxville, Tennesee

Carl Caldeira Charlottesville, North Carolina

phone numbers & e-mail addresses provided on request 

PRESS RELEASE

January 13, 1999 

KBA The Human Resource Technology Company

New insights on right-left brain are pointing the way to success in business and sports. Eighteen months ago, The Harvard Business Review carried an article on the link between functional specialization, as reflected by the MBTI (Meyers Briggs Type Indicator) and HBDI, and corporate productivity. Fourteen months ago, Sports Illustrated carried an article linking successful player selection to a coach’s use of the TYPE. And six months ago the LA Times devoted an entire supplement to how a person’s Type or Thinking Style can be used to predict and improve behavior. 

One of the leaders in the field of applying brain science to daily life to achieve better results is Dr. Katherine Benziger, author of The Art of Using Your Whole Brain. Under the direction of Dr. Benziger, KBA has developed a powerful set of tools, which currently being used by executives, career counselors and therapists coaching others to self-manage for improved performance, quality of life and wellness. 

The model is an updated, neuro-physiologically grounded version of Dr. Carl Gustav Jung's work and an excellent next step tool for those already using the MBTI. Significantly, the Benziger Model offers a major improvement over Meyers Briggs, Disc, the HBDI and most other assessments in use today. This is because it is the only model which acknowledges and tracks the phenomenon Dr. Jung called "Falsification of Type". In discussing Falsification of Type, Jung indicated that people can be seen as functionally specialized much as tools are functionally tools, which are most efficient and effective when they are used for the task for which they are designed. Thus, although one can use a wrench instead of a hammer to drive a nail, one will do a better, faster job using a hammer. Today, thanks to breakthroughs in neuro-science, we know that what makes each of us like a specialized tool is our brain’s chemistry. Each of us has a functionally specialized area in our brain that operates 100 times more efficiently, due to the significantly lower levels of electro-chemical resistance it enjoys naturally. When we use this area, the one that is naturally efficient, each of us thinks clearly and easily, performs well, and sustains a high level of interest and enthusiasm for our work. By contrast, when we are put into a position which requires we Falsify Type, that we use mostly skills which are outside our area of natural effectiveness, we tend to have difficulty, become irritable, make errors, and resent our job and our employer. 

Falsification of Type occurs on the job whenever a person is doing a task which requires he or she use primarily skills which are outside his/her brain’s, area of naturally efficiency. One study by Dr. Benziger indicates that 70% of the workforce are Falsifying Type to perform their jobs. What’s more, according to Dr. Benziger, Falsification of Type causes: low productivity; poor morale; high use of sick days; increased incidence of stress-related illnesses and turn-over in the workforce. By contrast, placing people in the "right job for them" as well as managing people with a sensitivity to their brain’s natural preferences, can promote: improved productivity, higher morale, diminished use of sick days, decreased incidence of stress-related illnesses and decreased turn-over.