A psychological assessment is the process of gathering information to evaluate a person’s behaviour, emotions, character, strengths, and needs for the purpose of diagnosing, setting goals, and recommending treatment. The WINdow specializes on assessment of a number of conditions and mental disorders.

• ASSESSMENT OF INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT (IQ): IQ is construct used by psychologists, measured using standardized tests as a means of describing one’s intelligence level. They can help diagnose intellectual disability or measure the client’s intellectual potential.

• ASSESSMENT OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER (ASD): Research has revealed that ASD can sometimes be detected at 18 months or younger. There are many tools to assess ASD in young children, which usually rely on two main sources of information—parents’ or caregivers’ descriptions of their child’s development and a professional’s observation of the child’s behaviour.

• ASSESSMENT OF ATTENTION-DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER (ADHD): The assessment of ADHD is a multi-step process. It involves clinical examination, interview, behavioural observations and completion of rating scales.

• ASSESSMENT OF BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEMS: Behaviour and psychological problems are assessed by professionals in conjunction to responses by teachers and parents and by client’s self-reports.

• ASSESSMENT OF READING/WRITING DIFFICULTIES: Three common patterns of poor reading includes specific word-reading difficulties, specific reading-comprehension difficulties, and mixed reading difficulties. On the other hand, writing difficulties can be evaluated on five factors such as fluency, content, conventions, syntax, and vocabulary. Assessment focuses on identifying strengths and weaknesses, planning provision of instruction, giving feedback, monitoring performance, and reporting progress.

• ASSESSMENT OF ANXIETY: It involves taking a full history and conducting a mental status examination followed by administering a battery of tests assessing anxiety levels and severity of symptoms of the client. Anxiety disorders share features of excessive fear and anxiety and related behaviour disturbances.

• ASSESSMENT OF DEPRESSION: It involves taking a full history and conducting a mental status examination followed by administering a battery of tests assessing mild, moderate or severe levels of depression, depending on the extent and impact of symptoms and the level of functional impairment or disability it causes. This assessment determines what level of treatment to initiate.
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• ASSESSMENT OF PERSONALITY DISORDERS: Personality disorder can be assessed in multiple ways, including self-report, checklists and structured clinical interview. The numerous instruments are available at the clinician’s disposal to aid in making a diagnosis.

• ASSESSMENT OF STRESS AND ANGER: Stress that is experienced can be determined by using a variety of instruments that have been designed to help measure individual stress levels. On the other hand, the most popular way to assess anger is the use of psychometric self-reports in which clients respond to statements describing their cognitions, emotions, attitudes, and behaviours. The assessment helps in forming management strategies.
• PERSONALITY PROFILING: Personality profiling is a scientific method of determining a client’s unique personality characteristics. A personality test is a tool used to assess personality; to measure the characteristic patterns of traits that the client exhibits across various situations. Personality profiling provides a way for individuals to explore their core personality, work preferences and strengths.
• Neuropsychological Evaluation : A neuropsychological evaluation is a test to measure how well a person’s brain is working. The abilities tested include reading, language usage, attention, learning, processing speed, reasoning, remembering, problem-solving, mood and personality and more.