I provide psychological assessments to candidates for the clergy, prospective adoptive parents, individuals facing immigration issues of all sorts, candidates for police, fire and other similar lines of duty, as well as parents involved in the foster care system.
Psychological assessment is done for a variety of reasons, but the central goal is to obtain more information about your overall psychological functioning. Individuals request assessment to learn about themselves. Often attorneys refer clients for assessment – for example, for immigration reasons or because the individual is involved in a civil lawsuit. I also perform evaluations for the foster care system, candidates for police and fire departments and other similar agencies, for individuals who are contemplating becoming a member of the clergy, and for those involved in workman’s compensation issues.
In a psychological assessment/evaluation, apart from the specific contexts that I named above, some of the areas that I cover are:
Intelligence
Sense of self
Relationship to others
Emotional functioning
Adaptive functioning
Ability to cope with stress
Memory