Our Services - Psychological Assessment
Children & Adolescents

We provide comprehensive psycho-diagnostic, psycho-educational and neuropsychological assessment for both children and adolescents. Career-related assessment is also provided for adolescents. The following areas could be included in any assessment, depending on the young person’s specific needs and requirements at the time of testing (examples of some of the testing instruments that form part of our test battery are included below each point):

  • Autism & Asperger’s Syndrome
    Childhood Autism Rating Scale; Gilliam Autism Rating Scale, 2nd Edition; Asperger Syndrome Diagnostic Scale
  • Career guidance: Adolescents
    Campbell Interest and Skill Survey; Career Directions Inventory; MB-10; Myers-Briggs Type Indicator; 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire; Self Directed Search-Form E;  South African Vocational Interest Inventory; Values Scale
  • Concentration & Attention
    Behaviour Rating Inventory of Executive Function; Childrens’ Memory Scale;  Conners’ Parent Rating Scales; Conners’ Teacher Rating Scales; Conners-Wells Adolescent Scales; Test of Everyday Attention for Children
  • Emotional
    Beck Youth Inventory; Children’s Apperception Test; Columbus; Kovaks’ Children’s Depression Inventory; Kinetic Drawing System for Family and School; Revised Childrens’ Manifest Anxiety Scale; Trauma Symptom Checklist - children
  • Intellectual Ability
    Junior South African Individual Scales; Senior South African Individual Scales - Revised; Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - IV
  • Memory
    Children’s Memory Scale; Wechsler Memory Scale - III
  • Neuro-development
    Neurological Developmental Test - NEPSY
  • Personality
    High School Personality Questionnaire; Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory; Minnesota Pre-Adolescent Inventory; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory - Adolescent
  • Scholastic Ability
    Dyslexia Screening Instrument; ESSI Spelling and Reading Tests; Neale Analysis of Reading Ability; Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test; Senior Aptitude Test; UCT Spelling and Reading Tests;  VASSI Mathematics Proficiency Test; Wechsler Individual Achievement Test - II
  • School Readiness
    Goodenough Harris Draw-A-Person Test; Junior South African Individual Scales; Mc-Grove School Readiness; Strebel School Readiness
  • Sensorimotor Ability
    Grooved Pegboard
  • Visual-motor Integration, Visual-Perception and Motor Co-ordination
    Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration; Beery Visual Perception; Beery Motor Co-ordination; Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test; Frostig Visual-Perception Test
 
 
Adults

We do comprehensive psycho-diagnostic and neuropsychological assessments, as well as career guidance and vocational assessment. The following areas can be included in any assessment, depending on the client’s specific needs and requirements at the time of testing (examples of some of the testing instruments that form part of our test battery are included below each point):

  • Aptitude
    Differential Aptitude Test Form K; Differential Aptitude Test Form L; Wechsler Individual Achievement Test - II
  • Concentration & Attention
    Conners’ Adult ADHD Diagnostic Interview for DSM-IV; Conners’ Adult ADHD Rating Scales; Stroop Colour and Word Test; Test of Everyday Attention
  • Emotional
    Anger Disorders Scale; Beck Anxiety Inventory; Beck Depression Inventory; Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations; Depression Anxiety Stress Scales; Endler MultiDimensional Anxiety Scales; Maslach Burnout Inventory; Profile of Mood States; Revised Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression; Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory; Sources of Work Stress Inventory; State-Traits Anger Expression Inventory; State-Trait Anxiety Inventory; Stress Resiliency Profile;  Trauma Symptom Checklist;
    Quality of Life Inventory
  • Intellectual Ability
    Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence; Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scales - III
  • Interest
    Campbell Interest and Skill Survey; Career Directions Inventory; MB-10; Meyer Interest Questionnaire; South African Vocational Interest Inventory;
    Self Directed Search - Form E; Values Scale
  • Personality
    Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory II; Myers Briggs Type Indicator; 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire; Personality Assessment Inventory
 

Neuropsychological assessments may include the tests already outlined above, and may also involve (but not limited to) the following formal tests:

  • Achievement
    Reading, Writing, Spelling and Numerical Proficiency (Wechsler Individual Achievement Test - II; Wechsler Test of Adult Reading)
  • Aphasia
    Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination
  • Executive Functioning
    Delis-Kaplan Executive Functioning Scales; Comprehensive Trail-Making Test
  • Memory
    Verbal, Nonverbal & Visuospatial (Wechsler Memory Scales - III; Rey Complex Figure Test and Recognition Trial)
  • Memory Malingering
    Test of Memory Malingering
  • Sensorimotor Ability
    Grooved Pegboard
  • Visuospatial Ability
    Rey Complex Figure Test and Recognition Trial
 
 
Elderly

Elderly people may require psycho-diagnostic and/or neuropsychological assessment as many age-related disorders can cause cognitive impairment and other forms of psychological dysfunction. These problems may affect the elderly person’s competence in a wide range of everyday activities. At our practice we can assess the psychological functioning of the elderly, by providing an individual profile for each person. We then offer the necessary counselling and guidance to the elderly person themselves, as well as to their family members and other caregivers, as is useful in each case.

A typical assessment would include the battery of tests described under the adult assessment section above. In order to assess specific age-related dementia, we also administer the Neuropsychological Impairment Scale with the elderly.
 
 
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