Psychology

 

Educational Testing:

Our Licensed Psychologist carries out range of assessments for a variety of purposes and provides clinical treatments.

About the Assessment Tests:

WIAT-II

It is a rich and reliable source or information about an individual’s academic skills and problem-solving abilities that can be used to guide appropriate intervention.

It is a comprehensive yet flexible measurement tool useful for achievement skills assessment , learning disability diagnosis, special education placement , curriculum planning and clinical appraisal for school children through adults.

 

Wechsler Intelligent Scale for Children- Integrated  (WISC- VI Integrated)

For the best possible assessment of a child’s capacities plus the information necessary for successful intervention planning, you need to go beyond the intellectual score.

This test provides a flexible process oriented approach to assessment and intervention and can be a diagnostic tool for ADHD, learning disabilities (reading, writing, math), traumatic brain injury, Autism/Aspergers Syndrome, mental retardation, and receptive and expressive language disorders.

 

NEPSY –II

It test can be used for general, diagnostic, selective or full assessment: from a basic overview of a child’s neurological status to a full comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation, including Social Perception, Executive Functioning/ Attention, Language, Memory and Learning, Sensorimotor Functioning, Visuospatial Processing.

Clinical studies include: ADHD, Reading Disorder, Language Disorder, Autistic Disorder, Asperger’s Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury, Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Mathematics Disorder, Emotionally Disturbed, Mild Intellectual Disability.

 

Children’ Apperception Test (CAT)

CAT measures aspects of personality, including level of reality testing and judgment, control and regulation of drives, conflicts and degree of autonomy.

 

Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

TAT measure aspects of personality, reveling some of the dominant drives, emotions, conflicts and complexities of teenagers and adults.

 

 

Clinical Testing

*Child Therapy:

Play therapy provides a way for the children to express their experiences and feelings through a natural, self-guided, self-healing process. As children’s experiences and knowledge are often communicated through play, it becomes an important vehicle for them to know and accept themselves and others.

Art therapy is a form of expressive therapy that uses art materials, such as paints, chalk and markers. Art therapy combines traditional psychotherapeutic theories and techniques with an understanding of the psychological aspects of the creative process, especially the effective properties of the different art materials.

Art making is seen as an opportunity to express one’s self imaginatively, authentically, and spontaneously, an experience that, over time can lead fulfillment, emotional reparation, and recovery. Through art, people can communicating issues, emotions and conflicts and also solving and formulating new perceptions that in turn to positive changes, growth and healing.

*Family Therapy:

Family therapy, also referred to as couple and family therapy and family systems therapy, is a branch of psychotherapy that works with families and couples in intimate relationships to nurture change and development. It tends to view change in terms of the systems of interaction between family members. It emphasizes family relationships as an important factor in psychological health.

Formal interventions with families to help individuals and families experiencing various kinds of problems have been a part of many cultures, probably throughout history.

*Individual Therapy

Therapy strives to help people better understand themselves and their problems in order to cope with the demands of their daily lives.