Psychological testing can be employed to answer a variety of diagnostic and personality questions. The MendCenter's approach to psychological testing rests on the assumption that symptoms are facilitated, fostered and exacerbated by unconscious internal conflicts, unmet needs, negative self-concepts, and other difficulties that operate outside of our awareness.
We provide four types of testing: psychological, cognitive, achievement, and comprehensive. Each form testing will treat patients seeking answers to specific question types.
What is the constellation of symptoms that ails the patient?
What diagnosis or diagnoses does this constellation of symptoms suggest?
What keeps these symptoms in place?
What drives them?
What can be done to treat the symptoms as well as the unconscious or underlying drivers of these symptoms?
General Psychological testing is for:
The patient who needs to determine what their psychiatric symptoms are versus personality or characterological traits. Therefore, psychological testing can help answer a question like - do I have bipolar disorder or borderline personality disorder?
Cognitive testing is for:
The patient who seeks to assess the neurological or cognitive underpinnings of functions related to memory, speech, and executive functioning. Meaning, cognitive testing can help answer a question like - Do I have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder or am I suffering from dementia?
Achievement testing is for:
The patient who needs to detect learning differences as well as receive specific interventions that might help the learning process. Questions addressed by this type of assessment regard difficulties with writing, spelling, mathematics, etc.
Comprehensive testing is for:
The patient who may benefit from a combination of some or all of these differing types of testing into a singular, all encompassing assessment.