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What questions can a psychological assessment answer?

A psychological assessment is not only about obtaining an IQ score or a diagnosis. It is designed to answer a specific personal question: understand how you function, explain a difficulty, distinguish between several possibilities and decide what to do next.

Depending on the question, assessment may focus on cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence, personality, attention, development or differential diagnosis. Not every person therefore needs exactly the same evaluation.

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The right starting point

The question matters as much as the test

Assessment is most useful when it is built around what you genuinely want to understand. The questions below can help you identify the most relevant direction.

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High Potential and feeling different

Is the way I function genuinely different?

Do I have High Intellectual Potential?Explore the possibility of very high cognitive intelligence. Do I have High Emotional Potential?Explore the possibility of exceptionally high emotional intelligence. Is my child gifted?Understand whether a child or teenager may have very high cognitive ability.

Why do I feel different from other people?Put the experience of feeling different into perspective and compare possible explanations.

Am I neurodivergent?Distinguish a general feeling of difference from an identifiable cognitive or neurodevelopmental profile.

Is my sensitivity related to High Potential?Understand what sensitivity may — and may not — indicate on its own.

Diagnosis and differential diagnosis

What best explains my difficulties?

Could I have ADHD?Explore attention, impulsivity, organisation and conditions that can look similar. Could I have Autism Spectrum Disorder?Explore ASD across its different presentations, including masked presentations.

Could depression explain what I am experiencing?Place symptoms in the context of overall functioning and personal history.

Should bipolar disorder be considered?Differentiate emotional variability, mood episodes and other possible explanations.

I feel unwell but do not know why. What can assessment clarify?Assessment can organise scattered symptoms and compare several explanations.

I doubt the conclusions of a previous assessment. Can I seek a second opinion?Re-examine findings when they do not seem to fit the person’s lived experience.

Cognition, attention and memory

How does my intelligence function?

Do I have difficulty sustaining attention?Objectify attention functioning and explore the factors that may affect it.

How strong is my memory?Understand cognitive strengths and weaknesses rather than relying only on a general impression.

Can intellectual functioning be improved?Distinguish underlying ability, strategies and factors that influence performance. What does an IQ test really show?Examine the different cognitive indices rather than reducing assessment to one number.

Children and school

What does my child actually need?

Should my child skip a grade?Consider cognitive level, maturity, needs and the current school situation together. Should my child repeat a grade?Understand what is actually causing the difficulties before making a decision. Could school difficulties be related to a Dys disorder?Explore cognitive functioning and determine whether specialist assessment is indicated. What can a WISC-V tell us about my child?Identify cognitive strengths, weaknesses and possible discrepancies between indices.

After assessment

What can I actually do with the results?

What kind of therapy or support would suit me best?Findings can help guide choices that fit the person’s profile and difficulties.

How can I feel better and live more comfortably with the way I function?Understanding your characteristics also helps identify concrete resources to use in everyday life.

How does the assessment process work?See the four stages: psychometric assessment, emotional and personality assessment, analysis and feedback. Would assessment actually be useful in my situation?Understand what an evaluation can contribute before deciding whether to proceed.

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