Psychological assessments from Sydney’s expert team

At E-Psychelpsydney, our senior clinical psychologists carry out a wide range of professional psychological assessments. These are performed upon the request of individual clients, as well as other professionals, such as doctors, employers, solicitors and courts.

Depending on the assessment required, each will differ according to the subject matter, but all will be conducted with the utmost professionalism and confidentiality.

Our psychological assessments may look at issues involving:

The rehabilitation of people with disabilities
Employability
Permanent impairment
Liability
Capacity to work, parent, or stand trial, etc.

Looking at both cognitive and emotional functions, our psychological assessments provide an overview of the person concerned at a particular point in time (e.g. post-injury).

Criminal assessment for prosecution or defence

These assessments include a full clinical and diagnostic evaluation of mental functioning, including identification of personality disorder and psychosocial history. They can be administered on-site at a detention centre as required, and the reports can be used to specify mental health indicators of diminished responsibility, ability to plead, stand trial or reoffend. Pre-sentencing reports include risk reduction and rehabilitation plans.

Family and children's court assessments

In child protection, custody, fostering, access or alleged child abuse cases, we can assess all parties over two visits at our practice or at their home. This process involves both clinical interviews as well as specialised psychological testing for everyone involved, with the reports used to aid the court’s eventual decisions. Video and audio taping of children’s interviews can also be provided in matters of child sexual assault.

Specialised dyadic developmental therapy can improve parenting capacity and the quality of the child/parent attachment and bond.

Compensable injury assessments

These impartial and objective assessments are available for plaintiffs, defendants or insurer liability, and may be requested by any number of interested parties. These include insurers, lawyers and court requests, victims of crime tribunal, WorkCover, health, social security, legal aid and other agencies and employers.

Personal injury and third party reports evaluate the psychological impact of the injury, including pain, trauma, and stress assessments as well as vocational and neurocognitive impairment. Reports specify whole person impairment, DSM-5 diagnosis and prognosis.

Specialised neurocognitive assessments

This assessment is performed to gauge impairment following a head injury or illness, diagnosing conditions such as organic brain impairment and minimal traumatic brain injury. Assessment reports are also provided with regards to specific learning disabilities and ADHD, along with recommendations for further treatment. In cases where there is severe brain damage due to accident, trauma, deprivation or neglect, a dynamic evaluation of the person’s residual potential to learn can also be carried out.

Educational assessments

These are often requested by teachers or parents to determine what’s causing any causing learning or behavioural problems in children, identifying any mental, emotional and/or social factors. Recommendations are also offered on how to best deal with these issues based on the test results.

Dynamic Assessment of Learning Potential (DALP) can show that IQ can be increased even with severe disability.

Vocational and career assessments

These tend to be requested by individuals or insurers to help with the job seeking process or in making career decisions. Areas assessed include transferable skills, specific aptitudes, abilities and vocational preferences, as well as labour market and training information about the recommended vocational goals.

Initial rehabilitation assessments and return-to-work plans

An employer, insurer or doctor may request the assessment of an injured worker on behalf of WorkCover. The report answers questions about the worker’s injury symptoms, restrictions and limitations, and recommends treatment, rehabilitation and return to work plans.

Medico-legal assessments

These are performed at the request of a lawyer, barrister, judge, Victims Compensation Tribunal or Motor Accident Authority, answering questions about personal injury compensation, criminal proceedings, family, children’s court matters or malpractice.

Professional negligence and sexual misconduct evaluation

We have many years’ experience in preparing independent evaluations of plaintiff and/or defence documents in matters of professional negligence and sexual misconduct. We can also provide expert psychosexual assessment of offenders and peer reviews.

Workplace stress assessments

Designed to help employees return to work safely, these assessments set out what duties the person can and cannot be expected to fulfil, based on their medical or psychological condition.

Personnel selection assessments

These assessments are used to gauge applicants’ suitability to a particular job, based on their psychological and vocational suitability to the organisational and job spec.

Pre-liability stress assessments for work injury

These independent investigations involve interviews and psychometric tests and seek to establish whether factors in the workplace are predominantly responsible for any injury caused. It is carried out on behalf of the insurer.

Call E-Psychelpsydney today on 0414 475 010 for more information
about our professional psychological assessments.