When & Why We Assess
We have a number of assessment (some free and some that incur a administration fee) which can be used to help you evaluate the situation and inform therapy.
It will be important to familiarise yourself with these tools. It is the clinicians’ responsibility to ensure that they are practicing within their scope of practice, as per the APS Code of Conduct.
The clinician will inform the client about which questionnaire will be recommended and indicate if it is free or will incur a fee. A short description of frequently used questionnaires can be found here.
If the client wishes to share the results from any questionnaire with other professionals within their network, and reporting would take more than 15 minutes, please inform the client that any report will be billed per hour (pro rata, according to each clinician’s fees).
Reports cannot be handed out without a formal feedback session with the clinician; thus, a follow-up appointment will likely be needed to discuss the results with the client.
Note: If there are other questionnaires you would like added – please talk to management so they can organise for IT support to create the form online.
Reasons Questionnaires may be recommended
- To assist in screening for neurodevelopmental differences
- To aid in creating hypotheses around the cause of behaviours
- To support diagnostic hypotheses or conclusions
- To rule out the presence of symptoms
- To support treatment planning or tracking
- To provide psychometric data for requested reports, referrals, or letters
