PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESMENTS
- Paranoid Personality Disorder: Assess pervasive distrust and suspiciousness using tools like the PAI.
- Schizoid Personality Disorder: Evaluate social detachment and restricted emotional expression.
- Schizotypal Personality Disorder: Assess odd thinking, speech, and behavior patterns.
- Antisocial Personality Disorder: Use tools like the PCL-R to evaluate impulsivity, aggression, and disregard for others’ rights.
- Borderline Personality Disorder: Assess emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, and unstable relationships using tools like the BPD Checklist.
- Histrionic Personality Disorder: Evaluate excessive emotionality and attention-seeking behavior.
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Assess grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy.
- Avoidant Personality Disorder: Evaluate social avoidance and feelings of inadequacy.
- Dependent Personality Disorder: Assess excessive need to be taken care of and fear of abandonment.
- Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder: Evaluate preoccupation with order, perfectionism, and control.
- ADHD: Use rating scales like the Conners’ Adult ADHD Rating Scales (CAARS) to assess symptoms.
- Autism Spectrum Disorder: Utilize tools like the ADOS-2 to evaluate social communication and repetitive behaviors.
- Schizophrenia Disorder: Assess symptoms like hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking.
- Schizoaffective Disorder: Evaluate mood symptoms and psychotic symptoms.
- Delusional Disorder: Assess presence of fixed, false beliefs.
- Mood Disorders (Bipolar 1, Bipolar 2, Cyclothymic, Major Depressive, Persistent Depressive, Premenstrual Dysphoric): Use tools like the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAM-D) or Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS).
- Anxiety Disorders (Generalized Anxiety, Panic, Social Anxiety, Specific Phobia): Utilize tools like the GAD-7 or PHQ-9.
- OCD: Assess obsessions and compulsions using the Y-BOCS.
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Evaluate preoccupation with appearance.
- Hoarding Disorder: Assess difficulty discarding possessions.
- Trauma Disorders (PTSD, Acute Stress): Use tools like the PCL-5.
- Adjustment Disorder: Evaluate stress response and impairment.
- Dissociative Disorders (DID, Dissociative Amnesia): Assess dissociation and memory gaps.
- Eating Disorders (Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating): Utilize tools like the EDE-Q.
- Substance Use Disorders (Alcohol, Opioid, Cannabis): Assess patterns of use and impairment.
- Gambling Disorder: Evaluate problematic gambling behavior.