Psychological Assessment Of Adults

The psychological evaluation helps in the overall understanding of the individual. Usually, when someone comes in for treatment tends to refer to the trouble spots of himself and it is often difficult to recognize the positive elements of the. Through the evaluation attempt of understanding of both the symptoms and the strong and healthy characteristics of the individual, the strengthening them will help in psychotherapeutic work of the individual.

The Psychological Assessment is achieved through a series of tests.

• The ΜΜΡΙ (Multiphasic Personality Questionnaire of Minnesota).This is a test which has weighed in English and it is the most prevalent and best studied psychometric test for the assessment of adult Psychopathology in the world. In Greece it is used by the Greek Police, the Armed Forces, all the Public hospitals and Mental Health centers, as well as from private psychologists. It is the only test, which is accepted by the courts in all over the world. It consists of 567 affirmative sentences, which is called the examinee to answer. Contains 120 scales of which 10 clinical scales and 8 validity scales. Special features measured are the υποχονδρίαση, depression, hysteria, psychopathic deviation, the identification with a gender, the paranoia, the mental illness, the hypomania, schizophrenia, and social introversion.

• SCID - 5-CV .The SCID is the most reliable psychometric tool for the investigation of the diagnosis of the DSM, already since the 1980s and to the diagnostic categories of the recently released DSM-5.So the Greek version of the Version of the Clinician (SCID- 5-CV) and of Personality Disorders (SCID-5-PD), are the fruit of a long-term occupation that began from the first version of the clinical interview and the interview for personality disorders with the result that lack neither scientific validity or accuracy in terminology, the requirements of a ταξινομικού system such as the DSM. Unique and valuable tool, the SCID-5-CV covers the diagnoses of the DSM-5, which are encountered more frequently in clinical context: depressive and bipolar disorders, disorders of the σχιζοφρενικού spectrum and other psychotic disorders, substance disorders, anxiety disorders (panic disorder, agoraphobia, social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder), obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and adjustment disorder. Also detects 17 in addition to disorders of the DSM-5.