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Psychological assessment is a testing method that uses a number of techniques to find hypotheses about individuals and their behavior, abilities, and personality (Framingham 2016). Psychological testing or psychological assessment is also referred to as conducting a battery of psychological tests on subjects. For different researchers, psychological assessment is a process, in which a psychologist aims: to achieve an accurate description of an individual’s functioning; to identify the person’s clinical needs (e.g., which interventions are more suitable); to make a differential diagnosis of mental disorders of all sorts; and to keep track of the progress made when an intervention is taking place (Meyer et al. 2001). A rigorous psychological assessment implies that health professionals also carry out a complete medical examination, to exclude the possibility of a...
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von Humboldt, S., Rolo, J., Leal, I. (2019). Psychological Assessment. In: Gu, D., Dupre, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_84-1
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