Assessments Offered

1. Adult Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory – 3 (SASSI-3)
   Ages: 18 years and up
   Reading grade Level: 3.2
   Accuracy: 94%
   Administration: 15 minutes to administer and score
   
   
2. Adolescent Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory (SASSI-A2)
   Ages: 12 - 18 years
   Reading grade Level: 4.4
   Accuracy: 94%
   Administration: 15 minutes to administer and score
   
   The SASSI is a brief self-report, easily administered psychological screening measure that is available in separate versions for adults and adolescents. The Adult SASSI-3 helps identify individuals who have a high probability of having a substance dependence disorder with an overall empirically tested accuracy of 93 percent.
   
   The Adolescent SASSI-A2 is designed to identify individuals who have a high probability of having a substance use disorder, including both substance abuse and substance dependence, with its decision rules yielding an overall accuracy of 94 percent. The SASSI includes both face valid and subtle items that have no apparent relationship to substance use. The subtle items are included to identify some individuals with alcohol and other drug problems who are unwilling or unable to acknowledge substance misuse or symptoms associated with it.
   
   
3. Beck Depression Inventory
   
   The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) is a series of questions developed to measure the intensity, severity, and depth of depression in patients with psychiatric diagnoses. Its long form is composed of 21 questions, each designed to assess a specific symptom common among people with depression. Purpose The BDI was originally developed to detect, assess, and monitor changes in depressive symptoms among people in a mental health care setting. It is also used to detect depressive symptoms in a primary care setting. The BDI usually takes between five and ten minutes to complete.
   
   
4. Social Worker Assessment
   
   Hypotheses about the primary causes of a person’s problems are created by synthesizing all information regarding the person.
   
   Data Collection:
   a) Multi-Informant Information
   b) Symptom Presentation
   
   Contextual Data
   c) Family: genogram
   b) Social
   c) Community
   d) School: report cards
   e) Cultural
   f) Developmental History
   j) Trauma History
   
   Please bring with you any other information you may haves such as:
   
   Previous Assessments: i.e. psycho-educational assessments
   
   Integrate Assessment Information to Form A Visual Presentation
   
   
5. Sensory Profile
   
   The Sensory Profile is used to determine how well children ages 3 to 10 process sensory information in everyday situations and to profile the sensory system's effect on functional performance.
   
   The profile contributes to a comprehensive picture of a child's performance.
   
   Caregivers complete the 125-question profile, reporting the frequency with which their child responds to various sensory experiences. This is scored to obtain a profile of the child's sensory responses. The items on the Sensory Profile are grouped into three major sections: sensory processing, modulation, and behavioural and emotional responses. The profile's nine factor groupings are used to characterize children by their responsiveness to sensory input, sensory seeking, emotional reactive, low endurance/tone, oral sensory sensitivity, inattention/distractibility, poor registration, sensory sensitivity, sedentary, and fine motor/perceptual
   
   
6. Sensory Profile Adolescent/Adult
   
   The Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile was developed to assess sensory processing abilities in individuals beyond childhood. Applicable in a variety of typical settings, such as schools, clinics, and programs that use client-centered practices, it is designed to promote self-evaluation of behavioural responses to everyday sensory experiences. The profile is most appropriate for individuals 11 to 65+ years of age and is intended as a trait measure of sensory processing. Questions are answered in a way how an individual generally responds to sensations, as opposed to how he or she responds at any given time. This enables the instrument to capture the more stable and enduring sensory processing preferences of an individual.
   
   The assessment tool includes 60 items, covering the sensory processing categories of Taste/Smell, Movement, Visual, Touch, Activity Level, and Auditory. Some of the items from the Sensory Profile were removed in favour of new items that represent characteristic adolescent/adult types of sensory experiences.
   
   
7. School Threat/Risk Assessment
   
   Using a multi-dementional approach we will conduct an assessment through a 7 step process.