Who asks for a psychological assessment? |
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A psychological assessment for oneself or for one's childPsychological assessment helps understand one's psychological, intellectual and cognitive functioning. Adults usually ask for a psychological assessment for themselves. Psychological assessments for children are usually asked by their parents. A request from a professionalWhatever the age, the request also often comes from professionals, psychotherapists, psychomotor therapists, teachers, psychiatrists, judges, or intitutions such as schools or institutions responsible for adoption or placement of children. A few examplesIn cases where the request comes from a third party, it may be, for example: - A request to understand the intellectual functioning of a child, his or her memory, capacity for abstraction or conceptualization, - A request to better understand the psychological and personality type a patient has in order to better help him, - A request for psychological evaluation in the context of a trial, - A way to determine if people wishing to adopt can become good enough parents (for example, a psychological assessment is asked from people who want to adopt in Colombia), - A request to know if repeating a year or skipping a year would be a good thing for a child, given his intelligence, his personality and his maturity. |