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The purpose of the American Psychological Association (APA) Guidelines for Psychological Assessment and Evaluation (PAE) is to assist and inform psychologists of best practice when psychological instruments, including psychometric tests and collateral information, are used within the practice of psychological assessment and/or evaluation.
A psychological assessment report summarizes testing and evaluation results to assess a client's cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning. It provides a professional opinion and recommendations to help guide diagnosis and treatment.
To be most beneficial, assessment reports must in the end put patients back together into a cohesive psychological whole, so they can best be helped moving forward, Pade says. “What it comes down to in a report is telling a narrative about the person, and how all these pieces fit together,” Pade says.
Psychological Assessment® is concerned mainly with empirical research relevant to assessments conducted in the broad field of clinical psychology. Integrative reviews of research in this area are also welcome. Relevant topics include: clinical judgment and the application of decision-making models;
According to the American Psychological Association (APA), these evaluations assess your psychological functioning, including your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to help determine the sort of...
This volume is an essential resource for researchers, professors, graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in developmental, clinical child and school psychology, educational assessment, testing, and evaluation, social work, public health and all interrelated disciplines. Keywords. Search within this book.
Clinical psychological assessments are the cornerstone of mental health diagnosis and treatment planning. They provide a structured approach to understanding an individual’s cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning.
Psychological assessment and report writing are arguably two of the more important tasks of clinical psychologists. The overall purpose of this chapter is to provide some recommendations and guidelines on how to write a psychological report using evidence-based assessment methods.
The chapter discusses the major sections of the psychological assessment report, including client description, relevant background information, behavioral observations, mental status evaluation (MSE), overall interpretation of test findings, diagnostic impressions, and recommendations.
The psychological report is one of the most important end products of assessment. It represents the clinician's efforts to integrate the assessment data into a functional whole so that the information can help the client improve his or her life, helping to solve problems and make decisions.