Comprehensive Clinical Assessments

Our Comprehensive Clinical Assessment (CCA) is an intensive clinical and functional face-to-face evaluation of an individual’s presenting mental health, developmental disability, and substance abuse condition. This evaluation includes ecological and psychosocial influences and factors, behavioral severity, and impact of current behavioral difficulties towards self and others, executive functioning impairment, subjective distress, strengths and preferences, and diagnosis. This evaluation is formulated into a written report, providing the clinical basis for the development of the individuals’ treatment and treatment planning. Within appropriate consent, this evaluation also allows review of legal, mental health/medical/substance use history and interviewing of “collateral contacts”. “Collateral contacts” can be practically anyone, such as daycare, family friends, employers, therapists.

 A CCA must be completed by your therapist or an assigned therapist prior to provision of outpatient therapy services, including individual, family and group therapy. The therapist may complete the CCA upon admission or update a recent CCA from another therapist if a substantially comparable assessment is available and reflects the current level of functioning. Information from that assessment may be utilized as a part of the current comprehensive clinical assessment.

What To Expect: During your initial session, your therapist will ask a series of structured questions regarding your social and behavioral health history. These questions will explore abuse, substance use, trauma, social engagement with family and peers, employment, health, and examine one’s overall well-being and mental status.

The format of the CCA is determined by the agency, and may differ from the CCA or previous providers. Although the presentation may be dissimilar, the CCA will consist of the following basic elements such as presenting issues, general health, mental health, and substance use history; current medications for medical and mental disorders; psychosocial history ( biological, psychological, familial, social, developmental, and environmental dimensions; along with risk factors in each area); evidence of legal responsible person’s participation in the assessment, analysis and interpretation of assessment with case formulation; DSM-5 Diagnosis related to mental health, substance use, intellectual/developmental disorders, physical health conditions, and functional impairment, and treatment recommendations.

Comprehensive Clinical Assessment of Neurodevelopmental Functioning: Our Comprehensive Clinical Assessment of Neurodevelopmental Functioning is a thorough and systematic evaluation designed to gain a comprehensive understanding of an individual’s neurological and developmental profile. This assessment encompasses a wide range of factors, including learning disorders, intellectual deficits, cognitive abilities, motor skills, communication and language skills, social and emotional development, ADHD, and adaptive functioning. The process typically involves a multidisciplinary approach. The assessment includes standardized tests, structured observations, interviews, and a review of medical and developmental history.

What To Expect: Our assessments for neurodevelopmental and neurocognitive functioning consists of various testing batteries that will be completed in separate sessions over a specific timeframe. The timeframe is dependent on your availability to test and overall progress with completing the measures. After completion of test measures, you will meet with a licensed professional who will ask a series of structured questions regarding your social and behavioral health history. These questions will explore abuse, substance use, trauma, social engagement with family and peers, employment, health, and examine one’s overall well-being and mental status.