Ni pour, ni contre les tests en bilan d'orientation, bien au contraire

For most of the public, an approach of guidance counselling has to include a sequence of assessment using tests. This opinion is perhaps caused by the professional representation of the counsellor, influenced by problematics of careers guidance dating from the beginnings of the 20th century. However, the guidance counsellors massively privilege the interview in their activity of counselling, either referring to rogerian principles, to the educational current and/or developmental current of Guinzberg, Super and theory of vocational development. What is the link between this request of expertise and these practices, which seek to emancipate the individual? We make the bet that it is possible to accept the request of expertise such as it is, and to lead the consultant towards an evolution during the feedback of results. The awakening to its own representations, with the dialogical course of the relationship, will enable him to infer a strategy of decision-making. This step will be presented in its relationship with the current practices in guidance and will be illustrated by a case study.