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Child & Adolescent Therapy & Other Interventions

Individual Therapy

Our treatment approach is tailored to the needs of each individual child. Older children and teens may be seen in individual therapy to help them better understand and accept their challenges related to learning or attention issues and to help build self-esteem. We also provide social skills groups for children who have difficulty interacting with peers.

Parent Guidance

Typically, we also involve parents in the treatment, providing parent guidance to help them address family problems in a constructive, problem-solving approach. Often, especially in the case of children, we focus on helping parents learn how best to help their child feel and function better.

School Consultations

By phone or on site.

Child & Adolescent Therapists

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Child & Adolescent Testing

The Center offers psycho-educational and neuropsychological assessments of children, adolescents, and adults. An assessment typically takes place over several sessions including an initial diagnostic interview two testing sessions of 3-4 hours each, followed by a feedback interview to interpret test results and to make recommendations based on those results.

Our assessments include what we believe to be the best tests available in order to understand an individual's attention and learning. Psychological screening is a routine part of our assessment protocol. However, more in-depth psychological assessment, including projective testing, is not part of our standard assessment. When emotional/psychological issues are a focus of the evaluation, an additional fee will be charged for projective testing or other psychological testing, based on time spent to administer, score and interpret them.

Records can be mailed or faxed in advance so that the psychologist can have time to review them in advance of your initial appointment. Or, if you prefer, you may bring records to the initial appointment. Please bring copies of records, not originals, so that there will be no risk of damaging or losing original documents. Records that may be helpful to us include medical records, school records, and prior test reports.

Children

An initial clinical interview (either with just parents or with parents and a child) is typically followed by a battery of psychological tests to assess learning, attention, and memory, as well as interpersonal and emotional issues.

School Admissions

For clients from pre-school to high school, we offer testing for school admissions for area independent schools.

Child & Adolescent Testing Batteries

Our standard diagnostic test batteries consist of cognitive and academic testing. The initial clinical interview assists us in evaluating whether additional tests should be administered to provide us with more information about specific concerns. We offer test batteries for each age group that may be supplemented, on a case by case basis, with other tests depending upon the particular concerns being addressed.

These batteries are for diagnostic testing, not for school admissions.  The school admissions batteries are much shorter.

Please find below a list of tests that we often use in our child and adolescent assessments, however, in individual cases, some of these tests may not be administered while others, not listed below, may be included depending upon the specific issues being evaluated.

Standard Battery for Children & Adolescents

  • Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children – 4th Edition (WISC-IV)
  • Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Adults – 3rd Edition (WAIS-III)
  • Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist: Parent (CBCL) and Teacher (TRF) Reports
  • Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) – Parent and Teacher Forms
  • Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning – Second edition (WRAML-2)
  • Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration (VMI)
  • Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (ROCF)
  • Trail Making Test
  • A Developmental Neuropsychological Assessment (NEPSY)
  • Conners’ Continuous Performance Test-II (CPT-II)
  • Woodcock-Johnson-III Tests of Achievement (WJ-III)
  • Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests
  • Guess Why Game
  • Brown ADD Scale – Adolescent
  • Girls ADHD Self-rating Scale

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