Clinical Assessment

Comprehensive Neurodevelopmental Assessment

At Minds & Hearts we conduct comprehensive neurodevelopmental and psychological assessments to individuals. While every psychologist will aim to complete an assessment and provide you with a collaborative clinical formulation that provides a rationale for a treatment plan, some cases require a deeper assessment that can clarify referral questions about if a client has a neurodevelopmental condition and/or some other psychological condition that can pave the way for a more comprehensive understanding for the individual and more tailored therapy plan and accommodations. Theses assessments are conducted in teams of two clinicians, typically a senior clinician who is the lead clinician who provides the initial interview and feedback session and a supporting clinician who assists with administering psychometric assessment and gathering collateral information.

The assessment process involves an initial 2-hour triage appointment (which includes 30 minute case management time for reviewing previous reports and psychometric information sent before the appointment as well as a 90-minute clinical interview with the client). For a minority of cases, the client or the lead clinician may decide at this point that the client would be best served following another avenue of support though the majority of cases continue the process with a further 2-3 appointments which involve completing tailored psychometric assessments, gathering futher collateral information and having a feedback session.A summary report is written by the clinicians that documents the reason for referral, presenting problems, observations, diagnostic conclusions, as well as individually tailored clinical formulation on the predisposing, precipitating, perpetuating and protective factors with recommendations to support the client over the next year or more. Typically, the time taken from the initial triage appointment with a lead clinician to the feedback session is 4-5 weeks, with the final report being completed and sent to you within 4-weeks from the feedback appointment assuming there are not issues with gathering key collateral information.