You will be asked to complete quantitative self-report measures and detailed responses regarding your history. This information is incredibly important as it helps elucidate which factors to focus on for your assessment.
The clinical interview is a one-and-a-half-hour (typically online) appointment used to gather additional information about your history, strengths, and presenting concerns. Your responses to the clinical paperwork will have been reviewed and follow-up questions prepared in order to gather other examples and clarifications. This helps to ensure a comprehensive testing battery is built, looking at anything that may contribute to areas of difficulty.
This appointment is typically between 3-4 hours in length and includes multiple tasks and activities varying in length (usually between 5-10 minutes each) that are standardized and measure brain functioning in a variety of areas. Examples of these include cognitive, executive, memory, academic, emotional, and personality functioning.
Several hours are devoted to writing up an evaluation document detailing how your history and other testing data, including testing scores, inform specific diagnoses (if any). This time is also spent collecting information from collateral informants when available. Your evaluation document will include recommendations/next steps for increasing your overall well-being and other opportunities for personal growth and support.Â
After your evaluation document has been finalized, an online session will be scheduled to review your results and answer questions as they arise. Your evaluation document will then be sent to you in a secure format.