Along with clinical assessment by the medical doctor, diagnostic tests are now commonly used for identifying/confirming physical illnesses and their causes. Similarly, psychometric tests (psycho diagnostics) are carried out for identifying psychological problems in view of planning appropriate treatment.
These include cognitive measures for the assessment of intelligence, social and developmental maturity, neuropsychological measures of memory and other brain functions, assessment of personality and disorders of personality, tests of aptitudes, and specific tests for depression, anxiety and other mental disorders, and specific measures suited for identifying/diagnosing developmental disorders like autism, attentional deficit disorder, learning disability, etc.
Clinical psychologists are professionals trained in psycho-diagnostics. This page aims to provide useful public information on various psychometric tests.
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