arcpsych services
Psychological Assessment
First step to identify your child’s strength, weaknesses and supports required
Psychological Assessment
A Psychological assessment investigates the factors associated with learning, including intellectual abilities, attention, memory, academic skills, emotional, behavioural and developmental health. Psychoeducational assessment can provide information regarding an individual’s learning profile and diagnose
- Learning disabilities (reading, written expression, mathematics)
- Giftedness
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
Learning Disabilities or Dyslexia
- Is your child’s academic performance below average?
- Does your child struggle with reading, writing, or math skills?
- Does your child constantly fail to complete homework?
- Has your child been held back in school?
- Does your child have trouble with stamina while studying?
- Are you placing excessive or unrealistic pressure on your child to achieve academic success?
- Does your child have difficulty putting his thoughts on paper?
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Does your child shows any of these signs
- Little or no babbling
- Doesn't respond to name
- Unable to develop friendship
- Showing more interest in objects than people
- Repeating phrases without understanding
- Difficulty with reciprocal social interactions
- Liking to have things in a certain way
- Inconsistent eye contact
- Repetitive behavior
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
- Does your child present with a short attention span and have difficulty focusing?
- Is your child easily distracted by external stimuli or his/her own internal thoughts?
- Does your child fail to follow through on instructions?
- Does your child often give others the impression that he/she is not listening?
- Has your child displayed poor organizational skills and often loses or misplaces important things?
- Is your child highly impulsive, restless, energetic or fidgety?
- Does your child manifest anger outbursts or aggressive behavior?
- Does your child have difficulty establishing and maintaining friendships?
Behavioural Problems
- Do you feel concerned about your child’s behavior?
- Has your child stopped listening to you?
- Is your child argumentative, defiant, unreasonable, angry or hostile?
- Does your child have unexplained behavioural changes?
- Does your child show a lack of respect for authority?
- Does your child throw regular tantrums?
Social-Emotional Assessment
A social-emotional assessment involves a comprehensive evaluation of various social-emotional difficulties that a child may experience. These difficulties include both internalizing (e.g., anxiety, depression) and externalizing conditions (e.g., attention and behavioural issues). The objectives of a social-emotional assessment include identification of
- Communication Disorder (e.g., Autism Spectrum Disorder, Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder)
- Disruptive, Impulse-Control and Conduct Disorders ( e.g., Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct disorder, Intermittent Explosive Disorder)
- Anxiety Disorders (e.g., Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Specific Phobias, Social Anxiety, Selective Mutism)
- Depressive Disorders (e.g., Major Depressive Disorder, Dysthymia)
- Adjustment Disorders