Psychological Assessment
children + Adults
Adult Psychological Assessment from a Neuropsychological Perspective
We use sophisticated psychological tools to understand an individual’s intellectual, cognitive, social/ emotional functioning, to illuminate underlying neuropsychological processes that may be contributing to a person’s performance and functioning.
Reason for Assessment:
Rule out Learning Disabilities: Identify challenges with attention, concentration, memory impairments due to Traumatic Brain Injury, challenges with learning and retention, and determine accommodations for vocational and/or academic success.
Academic Achievement: Understand challenges with passing standardized tests and determine the potential need for academic or vocational accommodations.
Social/ Emotional: Often needed for evaluation for admission processes for employment, adoption, immigration status. Determine whether an underlying process is affecting social emotional functioning, or to understand why an adult may be struggling with social or romantic relationships.
Relationship Between Intellectual and Achievement Functioning: Is there a learning disorder, or processing deficit that makes everything feel like so much of a struggle? If so, how can address these deficits?
Comprehensive Child/ Adolescent Psychological Evaluation
A child/adolescent psychological evaluation gathers sophisticated information about a child’s emotional, psychological, social, cognitive, and academic functioning and to integrate such information into a comprehensive understanding of the whole child.
Reasons for Assessment
Diagnostic Clarification: Answer why is my child struggling? What’s the basis for my child’s anxiety or depression? Is my child unmotivated or is there a reason why we struggle with academic success? Why can’t my child concentrate? Why is my child so disorganized? What’s the basis for my child’s severe oppositional behavior and tantrums? Does my child show difficulty in his thought process? Is my child experiencing symptoms related to trauma?
Underlying Process: I know my child is struggling, but I can’t pinpoint what the underlying issues are.
Developmental Concerns: What are the developmental gaps that my child is missing? My child seems different but I can’t put my finger on what it is. Where is my child stuck developmentally?
Personality Assessment: My child has had something happen in their life and I want to know how best to help them for their future. How has my child’s self-esteem or personality been affected?
Treatment Recommendations: How do I best help my child? What can I do to help him/her become psychologically more healthy? What is the best treatment for my child?