What types of problems are serious enough to warrant testing?
At PlusFour Solutions we commonly test children for depression, anxiety, distractibility, anger and school failure. We assess learning styles and disabilities and students who are withdrawn socially or don’t seem to make friends or fit in. We often assess students who are experimenting with alcohol, marijuana or other substances, or who may be model citizens at school but create terror at home. While we can diagnosis rare and unusual disorders, so often the students who come through our doors are depressed or anxious, and are struggling at school and / or at home. Children behave in only a few ways for a multitude of reasons. Identifying behaviors is descriptive, identifying causes is diagnostic. It is through testing that we go beyond describing a child’s behavior and identify the root cause. Only when we do this will a course of treatment become apparent. Finally, too many families wait until a child is in trouble to pursue testing. In most cases, an individual trained to look and un
