Is there a standard assessment battery?
No. With a few exceptions, the assessment battery is tailored to the referral question for each patient. However, a standard battery has been developed for some services to ensure comprehensive assessment and facilitate comparisons for research purposes. For example, most traumatic brain injury and bariatric patients receive a core battery of measures. Even this battery, however, is subject to addition or modification based on the individual patient’s presenting history, symptoms, and dynamics. We use a number of measures routinely and interns are instructed in the administration and interpretation of these tests in the assessment seminar and during individual supervision. Intellectual assessment is primarily conducted with the Wechsler Scales. Objective personality assessment is primarily conducted with the MMPI-2. Temple Children’s Hospital psychology clinic has multiple assessment instruments that can be used for educational, developmental, and psychological evaluations. Examples of
