Psychological assessments
Psychological Assessments are often used to provide a diagnosis for a particular patient :
- Intelligence test
- Specific Learning Disability test
- Personality test
- Memory test
- Diagnostic Clarification of Psychiatric Disorders
- Neuropsychological assessment
Personality tests – When you do something, why do you do it? Are the determinants of your behaviour due to inner causes, such as needs, or are they due to external causes such as the situation you are in? The answer is your personality. Personality tests assess your internal and external causal factors which are responsible for your behaviour.
Tests of cognitive abilities- How much is your ability to reason, solve problems, cope with new situations, learn, remember and apply what one has learned, and perhaps the ability to solve new challenges quickly. Intelligence tests, memory tests, learning tests; neuropsychological assessments help in understanding our cognitive abilities
Developmental Screening test- A “well child” check-up should include a developmental screening test. Your own observations and concerns about your child’s development will be essential in helping to screen your child.
Tests of psychopathology -Projective techniques- involve the presentation of an ambiguous set of stimuli, such as inkblots, sentence stems, or pictures, to which the respondents must impose some structure that presumably reflects their own personality and psychological functioning.