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BENEFITS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING

  • In complex situations, it allows for the confusion to be understood and for a cogent treatment plan to be developed.

 

  • It can help identify reasons why intellectual potential may not have been realized and demonstrated in the educational setting.

 

  •  If already involved in therapy, psychological testing can be used to determine progress and to chart additional areas needing to be addressed in order to obtain treatment goals.

 

  • Comprehensive assessments can also offer valuable information to treating physicians with regard to present emotional status in consideration of medication regimes. 

 

  • It can help us understand the functions that are involved in intellectual thought, management of intellect, educational achievement, emotional problem solving, and regulation of feelings.

 

  • Psychological testing can often identify subtle difference in the diagnostic presentation so that the right treatment is initiated.

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