Services

EVALUATIONS

• Psychological evaluations
• Court-involved assessments by our experts
• Risk assessments
• Parenting assessments
• Psychological assessments
• Parenting assessments

CSI has a number of programs that offer evaluations for 3 main purposes:

1) Design and Plan Psychotherapy and Differential Diagnosis

• Psychological Testing including intelligence, personality, and brain damage screening assessments and diagnostic interviews.

• Rapid Assessment: 3 Hour of individualized diagnostic interview, record review, and case worker consultation service and reports used in court and case management decision making.

• Psychological Testing to establish levels of trauma, intellectual capacity, existence of learning disabilities, suicidal potential, and placement recommendations.

• Rapid Assessment: 3 Hour of individualized diagnostic interview, record review, and case worker consultation service and reports used in court and case management decision making.

• Home and Community Based Parenting Assessments performed as part of a Care and Protection Petition. 

• CPCS Experts: CSI offers some of the area’s most well recognized experts in the fields of child and family mental health, child abuse, learning disabilities, domestic violence, psychological testing, childhood victimization, and attachment.

• Brief Parenting: CSI also offers a 3 hour brief parenting consultation and report for case managers and DSS Lead Agencies.  All court services additional.

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What Services Are Available?

CSI offers 2 main types of assessments.

1. The first is a traditional psychological testing battery administered to a child or adult. Often, these evaluations are useful to help capture your client’s current personality strengths. In C&P cases, parents are trapped by their past which is constantly used to justify unfitness in 210 cases.
   
   
2. The second is a parenting evaluation which involves an expert visiting and observing parent and child interactions. This type of evaluation is useful if a parent has invested years in parenting and the children want contact. This is a so called “bonding” assessment, which is a generic term for observations of parent and child interactions with an eye for attachment and emotional connection indicators.  This can be used in asserting the “best interest of the child” when a parent has not invested the time and wants to make a dramatic, last-minute attempt to parent. Children’s relationship within pre-adoptive settings can be documented. For example, the negative impact of disrupting a child well settled into a pre-adoptive family can be predicted based on a thorough evaluation of the child’s current life circumstances.

Both assessments can involve record reviews, attorney consultation, and field visits at various locations. Expert testimony can be offered in the fields of psychological evaluation & child and family mental health.