We provide comprehensive neuropsychological assessments and consultation services for clients age 8 and older.
The ClearView Psychological Services team is unique in that we ensure to carefully pair a lead psychologist to each case and based on area of specialization and overall fit. All of our cases are case reviewed by our dynamic team and all neuropsychological assessments are peer-reviewed before completion.
Neuropsychological assessment is a process of information gathering and formal testing that uses a combination of evidence-based measures and techniques to better understand an individual’s behavior, personality, and cognitive strengths and weaknesses.
Neuropsychological assessment is conducted only by a licensed psychologist who has been trained to administer and interpret psychological testing. Our team will not only provide you with a sense of psychological liabilities and weaknesses, but a clear understanding of strengths, assets, and how they can support greater wellness.
The use of psychological testing requires years of training that involves not only learning how to administer the neuropsychological assessments, but also how to incorporate information from a variety of tests, background information, and interviews, with the clinical knowledge of theories, of research, of the nature of psychological problems, of personality styles, and of human development. Psychologists are the only mental health professionals who are fully trained and qualified to use neuropsychological assessments.
A good neuropsychological assessment does not rely on a single test or even a single type of test. Instead, it relies on the synthesis of convergent data from carefully administered formal measures, clinical observation and evaluation, and a thorough history from the client and those close to him or her.
Psychological testing offers insight into the severity of a particular disturbance and of the capacity for adaptive (healthy) functioning. A comprehensive neuropsychological assessment will identify needs in therapy, highlight issues that may come up in treatment, recommend specific interventions, and offer guidance to ensure productive treatment outcomes.
A comprehensive neuropsychological assessment begins with a clinical interview, and includes any number of psychological tests depending on the nature of our client’s history and profile. Testing generally takes several hours to administer. Psychological tests can include neuropsychological assessments of personality styles, emotional well-being, intellect, academic achievement, neurological injury or compromise, learning differences and disorders, developmental disorders, and specific psychological disturbances and their severity.
At ClearView, we take care to put together the most appropriate battery of measures based on our clients’ needs; however, the most common neuropsychological assessment batteries we offer are:
Comprehensive Neuropsychological Assessment
This battery offers a comprehensive view of functioning across cognitive, academic, personality, and behavioral/executive functioning measures.
Learning Disability Assessment
A careful and detailed examination of learning issues and vulnerabilities, including nonverbal learning disorder, dysgraphia, dyslexia, reading disorders, mathematics disorders, etc.
Personality Assessment
This battery focuses on clarifying personality, emotional well-being, and a wide-range of mental health issues including anxiety, depression, mood disorders, psychosis, coping resources, and adaptive functioning.
Personality plus Behavioral Assessment
This neuropsycholigcal assessment adds measures that examine behavioral and executive functioning issues to the personality battery.
In addition to these primary types of neuropsychological assessments, our psychologists may include a variety of additional measures; for example, those measuring memory, neurological status, vocational interests, etc.
Because we customize our assessments to our individual clients, please contact us directly to schedule a consultation and quote.