Improving Your Emotional Well Being
Psychological Evaluations
Psychological evaluations are intended to provide a structured, organized, and succinct description of current psychological functioning including cognitive abilities and emotional experience. Psychological evaluation offers insight as to the severity of a particular disturbance and of the capacity for adequate functioning. It is a formal and structured way of gathering objective information about a person for the purpose of making decisions and sorting out questions about the particular child, adolescent, or adult. In addition, a psychological evaluation may be used to confirm or modify the impressions formed by referring therapists or educators through their less structured interactions in therapy or in the classroom. A comprehensive evaluation can identify needs in therapy, highlight issues that may come up in treatment, recommend particular forms of intervention, and offer guidance about potential outcomes of treatment.
Psychological Evaluation
A comprehensive psychological evaluation begins with a clinical interview. It includes any number of psychological tests depending on the nature of the questions posed about the client. Testing generally takes several hours to complete and usually requires separate appointments. Psychological tests can include assessments of personality styles tests of emotional well-being, intellectual (or IQ) tests, tests of academic achievement, tests for possible neurological damage, and tests for specific psychological disturbances and their severity. The evaluation may also include interviews with significant others (such as parents, spouses, or teachers), as well as a review of past records and relevant documents. Finally, a formal integrated written report of findings is provided along with recommendations based on those findings; presented in a personal, interactive feedback meeting.
Autism Evaluation
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurological developmental disorder with onset during the early years of a child's life. Our comprehensive ASD evaluation will assess your child's social functioning and communication, behavior, and adaptive functioning in order to determine the presence of ASD and appropriate recommendations and services to support your child's functioning. We also offer brief ASD testing services for re-evaluation and insurance requested testing.
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