Tests to understand Personality traits –

Personality - individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and

behaving that are relatively permanent.

1. clinical psychopathological aspects

2. non-clinical traits and tendencies

Projective Assessment

Require a person to respond to ambiguous/abstract stimuli, which helps bring forth

internal conflicts, needs, value systems, attitudes towards relationships, suppressed
feelings, anxieties etc.

Rorschach apart from the above, to rule out ties with reality

Tests to rule out or understand degree of specific conditions

Such as Beck inventories, Hamilton inventories

Suicide risk assessment (in Synopsis of Psychiatry - Kaplan)

Test for neuropsychological functioning functional integrity of the brain.

Used to assess cognitive functioning and rule out effects of brain injury, deterioration
of brain function in conditions such as Dementia, Alzheimer's, h/o Substance abuse,
seizure disorders etc.

Memory, Concentration, Problem solving, visuo-motor, face recognition etc.

 TEST SELECTION

Nature of reported concern/issue

Reason for referral

Exposure cultural, socio-eco, language

Age and Gender

Retest

More than one assessments can be chosen based on need

GLOSSARY

Tests to rule out Autism Spectrum Disorders

CARS Childhood Autism Rating scale I and II

ADOS Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule

Tests to rule out ADHD

Vanderbilt ADHD Scale

Parent Rating Scale

Behaviour Checklists

Conner s Checklist

Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC)

Test for Visual Motor Development

Bender Gestalt Test (BGT- Kopitz)

SFB can also be used