Assessment Process
Step 1
Join our Waiting List
After you enquire, you will be emailed a brief questionnaire to help you decide which assessments you wish to include in your assessment package and at which location, in order to place you on the correct waitlist.
If you are unsure whether you need an assessment, you may book a one-off consultation session with a senior practitioner, to help talk you through this decision.
Step 2
Intake Forms
When you are approaching the top of the waitlist, we will contact you via email to confirm if you wish to proceed with an assessment.
If you are proceeding, we will provide you with an electronic intake form for you, your child/adolescent and their teacher to complete, along with an invoice for your intake session.
Once the two forms are returned and your intake fee is paid, we will book the intake appointment with your psychologist.
Step 3
Intake Appointment
Your intake appointment is 70-90 minutes with your psychologist. In this appointment you will discuss your child's developmental history and current concerns.
You and your psychologist will confirm which assessment(s) is needed, create a plan and book your assessment. You will be provided with a final quote at this appointment.
Step 4
Psychometric Questionnaires
After your intake appointment, your psychologist may send you, your child/adolescent and/or their teacher psychometric questionnaires to complete prior to the first assessment session.
We kindly ask that these are completed before your first assessment session.
STep 5
Assessment Appointment(s)
Now your assessment begins! You will be booked in for between one and seven assessment sessions, depending on which assessment(s) are included in your assessment package.
Some appointments will be for your child/adolescent, and others will be for you to attend without them. This will be made clear in the plan you receive at your intake session.
Step 6
Diagnostic formulation & report writing
Now it's our turn! After we have gathered data from questionnaires, observations, interviews and test results, your psychologist will spend time interpreting the information to determine your child's strengths and areas of support. This may include whether or not your child/adolescent meets criteria for any diagnoses.
Your psychologist will then write an extensive report which includes your background information, the results, their interpretation and, most importantly, comprehensive individualised recommendations to support your child/adolescent at home and at school.
Step 7
Feedback
In your 50-90 minute feedback session, your psychologist will inform you of the results, diagnoses (if applicable) and explain their decision making. Regardless of a diagnosis, our key aim in the feedback session is to discuss the recommendations we have made to help support your child or adolescent. This feedback is completed without your child/adolescent present.
You can opt to include an additional 30-minute child/adolescent feedback session so that we can explain the results directly to them.
In most cases we recommend including your child/adolescent's school in a feedback session. You may wish to include them in your feedback session, or arrange a separate school feedback session.