Finally Understand What’s Really Going On
A thorough evaluation that clarifies the diagnosis, uncovers hidden strengths, and gives you a clear roadmap for home, school, and life.
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We take a ‘whole person approach’ to treatment.
Counseling & Assessments at the SMart Center performs comprehensive assessments and evaluations for a wide range of psychological and behavioral issues for children, teens and adults. Our center believes in taking a ‘whole person approach’ where we do not treat a symptom, but work to understand reasoning for symptoms and then accommodate/treat the individual based on their unique needs.
Comprehensive Psychological Evaluation
Children, Teens & Adults
The Whole Picture
A Comprehensive Psychological Evaluation is designed to provide a thorough understanding of how a child, teen, or adult thinks, learns, communicates, manages emotions, behaves, and functions in everyday life.
Beyond a Single Concern
Unlike evaluations that focus on a single concern, such as ADHD or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), a comprehensive psychological evaluation examines the whole person. By integrating information across multiple areas of functioning, the evaluation helps identify strengths, clarify diagnoses, answer complex referral questions, and provide individualized recommendations for home, school, work, and daily life.
A Clear Roadmap
Whether concerns involve learning, attention, behavior, emotions, social communication, or multiple overlapping challenges, the evaluation is designed to identify what is contributing to an individual’s difficulties and provide a clear roadmap for moving forward.
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The Evaluation
What Is Included
Every evaluation is individualized based on the person’s age, developmental history, referral concerns, and presenting needs. Depending on the referral question, the evaluation may include:
- Clinical interview and developmental history
- Standardized psychological testing
- Behavioral observations
- Parent, teacher, spouse, or self-report questionnaires
- Review of previous educational, medical, and psychological records
- Autism-specific assessment, when appropriate (available as an add-on)
HOW IT WORKS
STEP 1
REQUEST AN APPOINTMENT
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STEP 2
HEAR FROM OUR TEAM
Within 24 hours, discover treatment options matched to your unique situation
STEP 3
START TREATMENT
Kick off treatment with our team (virtual or in-person)
Scope of Testing
Areas We Evaluate
Assessment may examine:
- Cognitive abilities and intellectual functioning
- Attention, executive functioning, and ADHD
- Reading, writing, mathematics, and learning disorders
- Memory and information processing
- Anxiety, depression, OCD, and other emotional concerns
- Behavioral functioning and emotional regulation
- Adaptive functioning and daily living skills
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Social communication and Selective Mutism, when appropriate
- Overall strengths, challenges, and patterns of functioning
Diagnostic Clarity
Conditions We Commonly Evaluate
A comprehensive psychological evaluation may help identify or clarify:
- ADHD and executive functioning difficulties
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Anxiety disorders
- Social anxiety disorder
- Selective Mutism
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Depression and mood disorders
- Specific learning disorders, including dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia
- Intellectual disabilities
- Giftedness
- Developmental differences
- Multiple co-occurring conditions
Because many conditions share similar characteristics, a comprehensive evaluation helps determine whether one diagnosis, multiple diagnoses, or another explanation best accounts for an individual’s strengths and challenges.
Is This the Right Fit?
When Is a Comprehensive Evaluation Recommended?
A comprehensive psychological evaluation may be appropriate when:
- There are multiple areas of concern rather than one specific question.
- Previous testing has not fully explained the individual’s difficulties.
- Learning, attention, emotional, behavioral, and social concerns overlap.
- Diagnostic clarification is needed before beginning treatment or requesting school or workplace accommodations.
- Parents, physicians, schools, therapists, or the individual are seeking a more complete understanding of strengths and challenges.
Your Results
What You’ll Receive
Following the evaluation, all findings are integrated to provide a comprehensive understanding of the individual’s strengths, challenges, and overall functioning. You will receive:
Findings
- A personalized feedback session
- A comprehensive written report
- Diagnostic clarification and impressions, when appropriate
School & Work
- Individualized recommendations
- School, college, or workplace recommendations
- IEP and 504 accommodation recommendations, when appropriate
Next Steps
- Treatment and therapy recommendations
- Executive functioning, academic, behavioral, and social supports
- Recommendations for additional services or evaluations, when indicated
For children and adolescents, recommendations can help guide educational planning, classroom accommodations, intervention services, and treatment planning. For adults, the evaluation can provide diagnostic clarification and recommendations related to college, employment, relationships, independent functioning, and overall quality of life.
Our Goal
More than a diagnosis.
Our goal is not simply to provide a diagnosis. Our goal is to understand the whole person by identifying their unique strengths, recognizing the factors contributing to their challenges, and providing individualized recommendations that support long-term success at home, school, work, and in everyday life.
Why Counseling & Assessments, at the SMart Center?
Counseling & Assessments at the SMart Center looks at the whole person, not just their diagnosis. Our team of multi-disciplinary professionals utilizes a ‘whole-person approach’ to treatment. We deliver evidence-based approaches – such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, psychodynamic therapy, and a family systems approach – to our clients.
Now more than ever, mental health professionals must play a crucial role in helping those battling their own unique mental health challenges better understand their own invisible battles. Supporting and educating these individuals on how to develop and hone the requisite long-term coping skills will, ultimately, help lead them toward happier and more fulfilling lives.
