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All PSYCH SCREEN Batteries utilize validated, reliable, standardized objective psychological tests which together evaluate a broad range of vital factors that include cognitive processing, Mental Health symptoms, underlying personality patterns/dynamics, emotional functioning (including anger and impulse control), criminal characteristics and motivations, risk/need assessment, thinking errors, substance use patterns/characteristics, and normal and deviant sexual functioning. PSYCH SCREEN reports get you the information you need by integrating and cross validating results from any combination of up to 12 different state of the art psychological tests to improve report breadth and validity. Because PSYCH SCREEN, Inc., is not a test publisher vested in selling a particular test, we are free to carefully select among all available psychological tests in order to choose the best measure of each specific aspect of functioning. Each component test has impressive literature on its validity and reliability. Test length has been minimized by selecting only specific relevant tests that measure different aspects of psychological functioning. You can further customize your battery by administering any combination of included tests to fit your clinical needs. For over 60 years, the Shipley Institute of Living Scale has measured both vocabulary (an index of prior learning that is not easily affected by organicity) and verbal abstract reasoning (a measure of present information processing that is sensitive to organic damage). Because of this, the Shipley can help determine if organic brain damage exists, as well as detect possible Learning Disorders. Reasoning ability and Learning Disorders are vital for determining program needs, as well as a client's potential for benefiting from verbal interventions. The Matrix Reasoning subtest of the Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale - III, "the standard" measure of intellectual functioning, was included as a measure of non-verbal reasoning. Progressive matrices are culture and language-free measures of visual abstraction in which clients analyze visual information to determine which of several images complete a logical progression of figures. Nonverbal intelligence tests are important for determining intelligence in individuals for whom English is a second language and for those who have problems with verbal processing due to a Learning Disorder. Discrepancies between verbal and nonverbal functioning may also indicate Organicity or Learning Disorder and can provide important information for vocational planning. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2/MMPI-A) is the most commonly used psychological test and the premiere measure, the "gold standard," of psychopathology among all psychological tests. Its many Content and Supplementary scales not only clarify Axis I disorders, but also provide important information on a wide variety of psychological functioning. The Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) is a newly developed test of psychopathology that provides some information not included in the MMPI, as well as having considerable content overlap with the MMPI. The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-II/III/MACI) recently celebrated its 20th anniversary and is the second most widely used of all psychological tests. Not only does the MCMI evaluate Mental Health problems, more importantly, its strength is in determining underlying personality patterns that are essential to understanding and effectively treating clients. These personality patterns are also vital in identifying Thinking Errors that can be treated with a Cognitive Behavioral approach. The Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory (SASSI-3/SASSI-A2) was designed to detect addiction even in resistant clients. Based on empirical data, the SASSI not only measures reported substance use, but, more importantly, detects personality and social system characteristics that research has shown to be disproportionately present in addicted individuals including subtle characteristics that are not easily predicted and so are harder to fake. Levels of present exposure to systems that use alcohol, as well as ACOA features, are identified by the SASSI and may prove important to rehabilitative efforts. The Problem Oriented Screening Instrument for Teenagers (POSIT) was developed at NIADA to serve as an initial screen to determine areas of potential Risk. A self report, It helps evaluate potential for risk behaviors in 10 areas including Substance Use, Physical Health, Mental Health, Family Relationships, Peer Relationships, Education, Vocation, Social Skills, Leisure Skills and Aggression. Posit findings can be expanded upon and clarified by other test findings in Psych Screen Adolescent batteries. The Level of Services Inventory - Revised (LSI-R) was developed to assist in determining security classifications. It's subscale analysis helps pinpoint specific areas of potential Risk. As many Criminal Justice clients violently act out, the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory-2 (STAXI-2) was in several batteries The STAXI quantifies both the client's current emotional experience of anger, as well as their global disposition to experience anger over time. The STAXI investigates a variety of ways individuals cope with and control anger. Test results may directly reflect the degree of potential dangerousness and have implications for choosing optimal therapeutic interventions. While newly renormed for both adolescents and adults, for years the Jesness Inventory (JI) has been a benchmark measure of criminal characteristics and motivations. The Jesness Inventory assesses characteristics and thought patterns common to offenders, such as social immaturity, knowledge of social rules, asocial values, and levels of authority conflicts. Most importantly, the Jesness Inventory suggests the most likely motivations behind criminal behavior. Two tests are specific to Sex Offenders. Since 1974 the Derogatis Sexual Functioning Inventory (DSFI) has been used to measure normal sexual functioning, while the Multiphasic Sex Inventory (MSI) has evaluated deviant sexual functioning since 1984. Together these two tests measure both normal and abnormal sex drive, fund of sexual information, range of sexual experiences, cognitive distortions and justifications typical of sex offenders, admitted paraphilic behaviors on a wide variety of dimensions, sexual dysfunctions and motivation for treatment. The MSI Child Molestation, Rape, and Exhibitionism scales have subscales that allow further fine grain analysis of the specific nature and degree of sexual psychopathology. Detailed Assessment of Post Traumatic Stress is a new instrument designed to measure PTSD symptoms, both during the event and afterwards, as well as to determine the degree of PTSD related impairment. Traumatic Symptom Checklist for Children specifically evaluates the presence of PTSD symptoms in children and can be filled out by the child or other rater. Taken together, these tests provide a powerful initial assessment of an individual's strength and weakness and have direct implications for optimal treatment planning and supervision. Test results are integrated allowing Mental Health/Correctional professionals to consider their client's total clinical picture, as different test findings may interact and modify one another. Based on these results, PSYCH SCREEN reports suggest a variety of possible diagnoses and treatment/supervision alternatives for you to consider in light of your client's unique history and clinical presentation. |
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