Psychological Testing

Psychological testing is a formal way to measure how your child’s feelings, behavioral traits, social background, and intellectual abilities can lead to mental health challenges.

A typical psychological assessment for young adults would include:

• Clinical interview with a social worker or psychologist to shed light on the social factors that influenced your child during childhood.
• Assessment of Intellectual Functioning (IQ test) to help you understand your child’s intellectual strengths and weaknesses.
• Personality assessment offers valuable information about your child’s motivations, interests, emotional makeup, and preferred way of interacting with people and situations.
• Behavioral assessment to help you understand why a certain behavior is occurring, identify its purpose, and predict when it may happen again.

These tests give you comprehensive data that can be overwhelming and hard to interpret. Octagon Mentoring Services can coordinate your psychological testing, help you understand your results, provide valuable clinical insights, and recommend strategies and treatment.