Psychological assessments can help clarify:
- Reasons for inattentiveness, memory difficulties, or
suspected learning disabilities
- Learning styles and individual strengths/weaknesses in how
information is processed
- Emotional and personality factors that may be contributing
to work/job problems
- Underlying issues related to problems in dating, marital,
boss or co-worker relationships
- Emotional factors contributing to physical illness
- Psychological factors contributing to unresolved grief or
traumatic reactions
- Diagnostic issues and treatment recommendations.
With adults, psychological assessment is often used
therapeutically as an objective part of a decision-making process or
as a way to gain insights into troubling behaviors or relationship
patterns.