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Psychological Testing and Assessments Toronto
Dr. O'Connor, a Toronto psychologist, provides in depth, comprehensive Psychological Testing and Assessments to children, adolescents and young adults. Get "beneath the surface" and learn more about what is contributing to and maintaining the psychological concerns in a young person that worry you. What are the young person's strengths and particular talents? What are his needs and what interventions are most likely to help?
Her psychological testing and assessments explore a range of psychological concerns that may present in a child, an adolescent or young adult.
These include:
- learning and academic problems (e.g. learning disabilities & developmental delays)
- social, emotional and behavioral concerns (e.g.,anxiety and/or depression)
- traumatic brain injury/concussion
- trauma based issues (acute and/or ongoing chronic stressors)
The above concerns frequently interconnect. A young person, for example, who is showing learning problems may also show symptoms of anxiety and/or depression, or trauma symptoms and/or suffer from a brain injury.
Dr. O'Connor's Psychological Assessment and Testing Services incorporate her post doctoral training in School Neuropsychology. School neuropsychological assessments rely on brain-behavior principles and integrate neuropsychological and educational principles within the assessment process and the interventions that follow.
Dr. O'Connor takes referrals from educational personnel, physicians, pediatricians, personal injury and family lawyers, mental health professionals and organizations.
She also supports young adults who require psychological testing and assessment services to explore learning issues, such as a learning disability in order to pursue appropriate support at the college or university level? Or to assist young adults who are looking for help around college admission tests, and/or other issues such as behavioral and emotional concerns?
She provides services at her Toronto office, located at 2 St.
Clair Avenue West (Yonge and St. Clair), and also to
clients in the York and Simcoe regions at offices located in Barrie and
Alliston.
Dr. O'Connor's Psychological Assessments
Psychological Assessments
Children, adolescents and young adults suffer from a range of psychological concerns, from the relatively benign to the more serious. Their families, and the professionals who work with them are searching for help to support them. They want to get to "the root" of the problems that inhibit their potentials, and find effective strategies to address them.
Dr. O'Connor's psychological testing and assessment services increase understanding of the psychological concerns that present in young people, and lead to evidence based interventions to address them. They increase understanding of what is contributing to and maintaining the issues of concern, and reveal the young person's strengths, as well as his or needs.
Get "beneath the surface" and learn more about what is contributing to
and maintaining the psychological concerns in a young person that worry
you. What are the young person's strengths and particular talents? What
are his needs and what interventions are most likely to help?
Dr. O'Connor's psychological assessments assess a range of psychological issues and concerns that present in children, adolescents and young adults. Her services increase understanding of the psychological concerns that present in children, adolescents and young adults and lead to evidence based interventions to help promote positive outcomes in young people.
Learn more about the challenges that a child, adolescent or young adult is showing and how to help. Does she have a Learning Disability? Is she anxious or feeling depressed? Does she exhibit aggressive or acting out behaviours? Is she showing trauma symptoms, or symptoms of a brain injury?
How
serious are these concerns? Do they require the support of a
professional, and if so what kind of support would help? Find out how
the young person is coping with specific challenges and stressors such
as parental addiction or other adverse childhood experiences.
Click here to learn more about Dr. O'Connor's assessment and testing services.
School Neuropsychological Assessments
School neuropsychological assessments are comprehensive, in depth assessments that increase understanding of the brain-behaviour relationships that underlie the psychological and learning challenges that present in young people. This applies specifically to the underlying neuropsychological processing concerns that young people with learning and other psycholological problems often exhibit. The comprehensive, in depth analysis the school neuropsychological assessment offers leads to the development of evidence based, targeted interventions tailored to the individual needs of the young person.
The young people Dr. O'Connor works with typically require comprehensive, in depth school-neuropsychological
assessments to get to the root of the
psychological/learning issues that plague them. The traditional
psychoeducational assessment does not provide the in depth,
comprehensive assessment and analysis that her young clients frequently require.
Dr. O'Connor includes the components of a psychoeducational assessment within the school neuropsychological assessments she provides. These include measures of cognitive abilities, academic achievement and screeners to explore social and emotional functions. Dr. O'Connor includes these measures during the initial assessment session, and then proceeds to the more fulsome school neurological assessment if required.
Click here to learn more about Dr. O'Connor's school neuropsychological assessments.
Trauma Based Assessments
School neuropsychological assessments help explore trauma symptoms in a young people, determine their level of severity and whether or not the young person's symptomology meets the criteria for a post traumatic stress disorder. Trauma symptoms may result from a single acute trauma, like a motor vehicle accident, or more chronic, ongoing forms of trauma. These might include psychological, physical, and/or sexual abuse, and/or emotional or physical neglect, living with a family member with mental health or substance use disorders and/or witnessing domestic abuse. Poverty may also be a factor, as well as bullying, racism, discrimination and community violence. Post traumatic stress symptoms can interfere with a young person's ability to learn and succeed academically and contribute to social, emotional and behavioural concerns.
Other Psychological Challenges
What about the other psychological challenges that plague young people and their families? Are you worried about a child whose parents are addicted to alcohol or other drugs? These children, like other children who experience ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) are at risk for developing a range of psychological issues and concerns, including learning, social/emotional and behavioral concerns.
These children may also benefit from psychological testing and assessments to explore the psychological concerns they exhibit and provide evidence based interventions to assist them.
Dr. O'Connor's psychological assessments address ACEs and their affects on children and adolescents, and help determine how they are coping and where they may benefit from support.
Dr. O'Connor is the author of "I Can Be Me-A Helping Book for Children from Troubled Families."
She has updated I Can Be Me to reflect the literature on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). This book includes a special focus on children of addicted parents. It supports young people who are experiencing other adverse childhood experiences. There is an adult guide to assist therapists, parents and other caring adults in addressing this issue with children. There is also a children's work book for the children to refer to, and colour in if they choose.
I Can Be Me
A Helping Book for Children From Troubled Families
-with a special focus on children of addicted parents
Find out more about I CAN BE ME, and how to purchase this book.