Vocational / Psychological Assessments
Purpose: Often referred to as an ‘ employability assessment’ the purpose of this assessment is to review the employability of a claimant following a psychological incident. Where our approach differs from similar current assessment types is that our approach integrates both physical and psychological factors to determine work suitability.
When can this assessment be deployed:
- Psychological injury because of
- Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) episodes
- Bullying
- Sexual harassment
- Racial harassment
- Discrimination
- Performance review
- General injury incidents
Psychology assessment as a function of physical injury.
Purpose: The purpose of this assessment is to provide a holistic approach and identify the psychological issues resulting from a physical injury incident and then recommend possible redeployment in suitable work.
When can this assessment type be deployed
- Psychological injury resulting and/or linked to a
- Workplace physical injury
- E.g. back injury , recurrent soft tissue , improper work practices
- Modules of this assessment include
- Vocational
- Functional
- Job matching integrating vocational/functional and psychological factors
- Training recommendations
- Workplace physical injury
Cogent Psychiatric Assessment
Purpose: The purpose of this assessment is to collaborate with subjective psychiatric assessments and provide an insight to the psychological injury to prepare an overall objective assessment through the use of psychometric processes.
Background to usage of this assessment type.
- Psychiatric assessment reports and assessments provide a subjective opinion and generally provide
- History , diagnosis and opinion.
- What it does not provide is
- Objective testing of personality traits
- Psychometric testing
- Factors that impact on employability
- Our approach is to
- Work in conjunction with the psychiatrist
- Provide diagnosis of the psychological injury
- Introduce psychometric analysis to provide objective data
- Filter for malingering and similar related episodes
Pain Management Assessment
Purpose: This assessment and report is a holistic approach outlining the impact of pain on an individual both from a physical and psychological perspective.
When to use this assessment type
This assessment type
- Provides an commentary on psychological aspects of pain and the effect on
- Lifestyle in total
- Disability
- Mental health
- Future employability
- Reports are based on
- Psychometric testing
- Causes of pain
- Benchmarking pain status
Customised Assessments
Purpose: The purpose of this assessment type is to ensure that a customised approach is provided so that the individual is provided with the most suitable testing and that the case is assessed on its individual merits and requirements.
- Depending on the circumstances we recognise that standard assessments may not suit all cases
- Based on our extensive experience we can customise assessments, variations of assessments and
methodologies to suit - Inquire directly with us and provide us with the outline of the assessment requirements
- We can design and conduct the assessment structure to suit the individual