Assessment & Forensic Services assists children, adolescents and adults who are self-referred, referred by treatment providers, or referred by other community agencies.

   Psychological assessments help identify and clarify possible problem areas in order determine appropriate diagnoses and recommendations.

Referral Sources
• Tennessee Disability Determination Services
• Vocational Rehabilitation
• Department of Children’s Services
• Emergency 911 & Law Enforcement
• Frontier Health Consumers
• Juvenile & Adult Courts
• Physicians
• School Systems
• Other Community Agencies
• Individual & Staff Referrals

Types of Assessment

• Diagnostic Evaluations: Focus on assessing the
   nature of an individual’s overall personality
   and emotional functioning. Evaluations may
   include pre-surgical evaluations, parenting
   assessments, clinical assessments, and/or
   capacity to give consent, etc.
• Educational Evaluations: Focus on intellectual
   and academic functioning to identify learning
   difficulties, giftedness and developmental
   disabilities.
• Vocational Evaluations: Focus on helping
   individuals make career choices through
   career planning and development.
• Forensic Evaluations: Focus on evaluating the
   mental conditions of criminal defendants upon
   referral from a local criminal court.
   Evaluations may include competency to stand
   trial, mental condition and diminished capacity.
• Personnel Evaluations: Focus on public safety
   evaluations to include law enforcement and
   emergency 911 certifications.

Components of an Assessment
• Clinical Interview
• Mental Status Examination
• Tests of Verbal & Non-Verbal Intelligence
• Tests of Academic Achievement
• Objective Personality / Emotional Measures
• Projective Personality/ Emotional measures
• Neuropsychological Screening measures
• Specialty Evaluations

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