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Child Comprehensive Assessment Screener

What: The Child Comprehensive Assessment Screener helps provide the big picture around your child’s:

  • social communication difficulties
  • inattentiveness/distractibility
  • hyperactivity
  • ritual or repetitive behaviours
  • defiance, aggression, and behavioural problems
  • specific anxiety issues (e.g., phobias, separation anxiety, social anxiety, panic symptoms) 
  • depressive symptoms

Why: A complex mental health problem can be identified when a child exhibits multiple presenting issues that affect the way they interact and deal with others and the world around them. Which is why this Screener combines the Behavioural/Mental Health and ASD Screeners. The Screener is useful for assessment of Autism Spectrum Disorder, behavioural conduct problems, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety disorders, and depressive disorders.

How: The assessments in the Comprehensive Screener can be completed online by the child’s parent/carer and their teacher. Once all the assessments are completed, we will compile the results into a written report. The report offers diagnostic considerations for further investigation and suggestions for management in various environments, and recommendations for further assessment/intervention. We will then schedule a Feedback Session so that your treating psychologist can interpret the report findings. Rebates may be applied to this Feedback session if you have a current Mental Health Care Plan or Private Health Insurance.

Who:  Children aged 6-12 

                   

Description

Important information about Assessment Screeners

An Assessment Screener is a series of validated psychometric assessment tools designed to ascertain the presence and severity of a number of common mental health problems. They range from basic screeners, providing general information about a client’s mental health, to assessments for specific behavioural problems, to our more comprehensive suites – assessing clients with multiple and complex presentations. 

Our assessment suites act as a complement to other service provision and can help free up time for service providers, parents and schools alike. Our responsive assessment reports, based on validated psychometric measures, can also provide information regarding whether more extensive testing (e.g., IQ or achievement tests) is needed. The added benefit, is that our clients will have all of the information they need (in report form) in order to implement an integrated and effective care plan. The results can help to effectively direct interventions or clinical care and may also form an important part of obtaining a diagnosis and/or support funding (e.g., NDIS funding). 

Please note; there are natural limitations to psychometric measures with our online assessments, which means they are a screening instrument only and cannot and should not be used alone to make a mental health diagnosis. However, the scores from the assessments are an essential part of the process to obtain a diagnosis. A diagnosis is possible with the assessment results, together with a professional observation of a suitably qualified health professional (clinical psychologist, paediatrician, psychiatrist) to make a judgement regarding the appropriateness of a diagnosis. Further costs may be incurred for additional testing and assessments. 

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