The Glenwood Testing Center was founded by Dr. Frank Cushing and other Glenwood professionals in 1985 as a state-of-the-art, computerized psychological testing and assessment facility. Under Dr. Cushing's ownership, the testing center has grown to offer over 150 up-to-date, scientifically validated and reliable psychological tests for a wide variety of evaluation purposes.
Thousands of clients including children as young as 18 months, adolescents, young adults, middle-aged people and geriatric patients as old as 100 have been assessed in the Glenwood Testing Center over the past 20+ years.
The Glenwood Testing Center evaluates clinical issues including ADHD, anxiety, depression, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in children and adults. In addition, patients of all ages can be assessed for possible learning disabilities, developmental issues and cognitive functioning deficits. Dementia and Alzheimer's type brain deterioration can also be measured through neuropsychological test batteries offered through the testing center.
Vocational and Personnel testing can also be completed by Glenwood psychologists. Pre-employment assessments for business and industry, evaluations of law enforcement candidates, and fitness for duty testing are regularly completed by the center's psychologists. Assisting clients in exploring vocational options based on measures of their occupational aptitudes and interests is also a service that is offered by the Glenwood Testing Center.
Health psychology assessments including presurgical evaluations in bariatric or gastric bypass surgery to determine suitability for such procedures as well as the patient's ability to give fully informed consent and comply with recommended postoperative regimens are also offered through the Glenwood Testing Center.
Specialized psychological tests are offered to assist the legal community in civil cases including parenting skills assessments for child custody determinations, personal injury cases, and on criminal issues by assessing competence for trial or to waive Miranda, criminal responsibility (insanity) and mitigating/aggravating factors in presentencing evaluations. The psychologists in the testing center have also evaluated defendants in death penalty cases, completed psychological autopsies for civil cases and have performed hundreds of violence risk assessments on clients with suspected anger management difficulties.
The Glenwood Testing Center is staffed by psychologists with specialized, post-doctoral fellowship training in the assessment and treatment of sex offenders. As such, we are equipped to perform comprehensive sex specific evaluations to measure possible deviant sexual arousal, and to help determine dangerousness and the likelihood of reoffending by assessing sexual violence risk, sexual adjustment and level of denial.
Whatever your assessment needs, the Glenwood Testing Center has the professional expertise and experience as well as the specialized psychological assessment instruments to provide comprehensive, written evaluations to answer questions regarding cognitive, personality, behavioral or vocational functioning. Feel free to contact us with your specific evaluation question or psychological testing requirements.
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The Glenwood Testing Center offers the latest in scientifically validated, reliable psychological evaluation instruments to assess functioning in the following areas:
Cognitive-psycho-educational: academic, neuropsychological and developmental
Behavioral:conduct, ADHD, sexual issues
Emotional:affective, anxiety, PTSD
Personality: chronic, engrained traits including: dependent, histrionic, depressive, anti-social, borderline
Forensic: criminal including sex offenders and civil including child custody and personal injury
Vocational and personnel assessment including candidates for employment or promotion, fitness to return to duty, dangerousness, etc.
Glenwood psychologists have over 35 years experience in utilizing the correct tests for each situation. The Center offers over 150 psychological assessment instruments including, but not limited to, the following:
ADULT CLINICAL/PERSONALITY TESTS:
Psycho/Social History - Adult
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 2 Audio tape or Spanish Version)
Millon Clinical Multiaxial lnventory-II/III (Audio tape or Spanish Version)
Millon Index of Personality Styles
Personality Assessment Inventory (Audio tape Version)
Coolidge Assessment Battery
Adult Diagnostic Screening Battery
Rorschach Psychodiagnostic Test
Thematic Apperception Test
Symptom Checklist 90-Revised
Sentence Completion Series - Adult, Marriage, Family, Work, Illness
Mental Status Checklist Adult
Marital Evaluation Checklist
Reiss Profile of Fundamental Goals & Motivation for Persons with Mental Retardation
ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER INSTRUMENTS:
Conners' Continuous Performance Test - II
Brown ADD Scales
Young Adult Self-Report (Ages 18-30)
Young Adult Behavior Checklist (Ages 18-30)
Semi-structured Interview for Adult ADHD
Connors’ Adult ADHD History Form
Self-Rating Symptom Checklist for Adult ADHD
HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY (SOMATIC)TESTS:
Millon Behavioral Medicine Diagnostic
Multidimensional Health Profile - Psychosocial
Multidimensional Health Profile - Health
Pain Patient Profile
Eating Disorder Profile 2
Post-Partum Depression Screening Scale
NEURO-PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS:
Neuro-psychological Questionnaire
Dementia Rating Scale
Alzheimer's Disease Caregiver's Questionnaire
Wisconsin Card Sorting Test
Paced Auditory Serial Attention Test
Trailmaking Test
MMPI-2 Neurological Interpretation
Brief Symptom Inventory 18
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale III
Wechsler Memory Scales III
Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test
Validity Index Profile
ALCOHOL & DRUG ABUSE EVALUATION INSTRUMENTS:
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory II (Alcohol/Drug)
Alcohol Use Inventory
Mayo Clinic Alcoholism Scale
Mayo Clinic Scale of Co-dependency
Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test
Drug Abuse Screening Test
ADOLESCENT & CHILD PERSONALITY AND BEHAVIOR TESTS:
Psycho/Social History - Adolescent
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory- Adolescent
Millon Adolescent Personality Inventory
Millon Pre-Adolescent Clinical Inventory
Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory
Adolescent Psychopathology Scale
Sentence Completion Series - Adolescent
Adolescent Diagnostic Screening Battery
Child Behavior Checklist - Youth Self-Report AGES 11-18
Brown ADD Scales Child/Adolescent
Mental Status Checklist for Children
Mental Status Checklist for Adolescent
Behavior Assessment System for Children: Self-Report of Personality Ages 12-18
Reiss Profile of Fundamental Goals & Motivation for Persons with Mental Retardation
Rorschach Psychodiagnostic Test
Children’s Apperception Test
Draw A Person Test
House-Tree-Person Projective Drawings
Kinetic Family Drawings
General Anxiety Scale for Children
Self-esteem Inventory
Feelings Inventory
Purcell Sentence Completion Series - child
Parenting Stress Index
BEHAVIOR RATING SCALES (completed by Parents/Teachers):
Behavior Assessment Scale for Children: Parent Rating Scale Ages 4-18
Teacher Rating Scale Age: 4-5; Age: 6-11; Age: 12-16
Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist
Child Diagnostic Screening Battery
Conners' Parent Rating Scale
PSYCHO-EDUCATIONAL/LEARNING DISABILITY TESTS:
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-IV
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scales of Intelligence III
Stanford Binet Intelligence Scales 4th Edition
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
Woodcock Johnson Tests of Cognitive Ability III
Woodcock Johnson Tests of Achievement III
Gray Oral Reading Tests-4
Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing (ages 7-24)
Test of Written Language-Third Edition
Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-R
Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration
Light’s Retention Scale
Demos Drop-out Scale
DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY ASSESSMENT TOOLS:
Denver Developmental Test II
Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales
Developmental History Checklist for Children
Childhood Autism Rating Scales
Australian Scale for Asperger's Syndrome
Reiss Profile of Goals and Motivation Sensitivities for
Persons with Mental Retardation
SEX SPECIFIC ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS:
Victim Evaluation:
Child Sexual Behavior Inventory
Children’s Impact of Traumatic Events Scale - Sexual Abuse Version
Offender Evaluation:
Abel Assessment for Sexual Interest
MSI Multiphasic Sex Inventory
Facets of Sexual Offender Denial Scale
Victim Empathy Scale
Sexual Adjustment Inventory-Juvenile
Sexual Offender Risk Assessment Guide
Sexual Offense Risk Instrument
Sexual Violence Risk
Hare Psychopathy Checklist Revised
ANGER AND VIOLENCE ASSESSMENT SCALES:
Assessing Risk for Violence
Violence Risk Appraisal Guide
The Anger Profile
Multi-dimensional Anger Inventory
Battered Woman Syndrome Questionnaire
The Rational Behavior Inventory
The Self Report Jealous Scale
The Argumentativeness Scale
POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER TESTS:
Trauma Symptom Inventory
Stress Response Rating Scale
Post Traumatic Stress Diagnostic Scale
Impact of Life Events Scale
Clinically Administered PTSD Scales
PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT TOOLS:
Motor Vehicle Accident Interview
Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS)
Activities of Daily Living Questionnaire
CHILD CUSTODY/VISITATION TESTS:
Parent/Child Relationship Inventory
Sentence Completion Series-Parenting
Child Custody/Visitation Questionnaire
Parent Discipline Techniques
MMPI-2: Child Custody Interpretive
FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS:
Competency to Stand Trial Assessment Instrument
Competency for Trial Screening Test
Lawrence Present Mental Competency Test
Criminal Responsibility Questionnaire
Rogers Criminal Responsibility Assessment Scales
Hare Psychopathy Checklist Revised
MMPI-2 Pre-trial, Correction or Competency-Commitment Interpretive
Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory III—Corrections Report
Malingering Probability Scale
VOCATIONAL AND PERSONNEL TESTS:
Hilson Personnel Profile
Inwald Personality Inventory
MMPI-2—Personnel
16 Personality Factor Questionnaire
Executive Profile Survey
Temperament and Values Inventory
Career Assessment Inventory
Campbell Interest and Skills Survey
Kuder Career Search Schedule
Law Enforcement Candidate Screening Instrument
Law Enforcement Personal History Questionnaire
PAI Law Enforcement Profile
Impaired Professional Questionnaire
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CHILD STUDY:
A child study is a comprehensive psychological evaluation of a child's intellectual, academic, developmental, emotional, personality, behavioral and social functioning. This thorough evaluation will determine the nature of the child's problems and diagnoses and will result in a formal written treatment plan. The treatment plan will outline the best way to work with the child at home and at school so as to optimize the child's learning abilities. The recommendations may include how a physician, psychotherapist or counselor and other specialists may provide services to assist the child in prospering and reaching their fullest potential. Specifics regarding the development and formulation of remedial, compensatory accommodations plans (504 plans or Individualized Educational Plans {IEP})will be detailed in the written report.
The Child Study consists of a number of appointments wherein many of the following assessment instruments and psychoeducational tests will be administered:
DESCRIPTION OF TESTS USED IN A COMPREHENSIVE CHILD STUDY:
Developmental History Checklist for Children: completed by parents, to described the child's current status and history including presenting problems, personal information and family background, early developmental history, educational history, medical history and health status, family history, and current behavior and relationships
Personal History Checklist for Adolescents: this adolescent history taking instrument obtains data regarding presenting problems, occupational history, personal information/family background, health and habits, family history, developmental history, current situation, and educational history
Attention Deficit Disorders Evaluation Scale*: a parent-completed assessment form yielding measures of inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity.
Child Behavior Checklist*: a parent-completed assessment form including ratings of emotional symptoms, personality, behavior, attitude, attention, and cognitive functioning in the home setting. Used in the overall psychological and diagnostic assessment process.
Conners' Parent Symptom questionnaire: a parent-completed form, which yields comparative scores for psychosomatic symptoms, behavioral disorders, attentional problems, and hyperactivity.
ADD-H: Comprehensive Teacher's Rating Scale (ACTeRS): a teacher-completed assessment of the child's personality and behavior providing observations regarding oppositional, social skills, attention, and hyperactivity.
Conners Teacher's Rating Scale: a teacher-completed form, which yields comparative scores for psychosomatic symptoms, behavioral disorders, attentional problems, and hyperactivity.
Teacher's Report Form: a teacher-completed assessment form which includes rating of emotional symptoms, personality, behavior, attitude, attention, and cognitive functioning. Used in the overall psychological assessment and diagnostic process
Brown Attention Deficit Disorders Scales: Child/ Adolescent/Adult Form: assesses cognitive and affective indications of ADD in children/adolescents/adults. This instrument measures a wide variety of factors believed to be associated with ADD by examining not only the ability to sustain attention, but also the ability to activate and organize work tasks, sustain energy and effort to complete tasks, regulate moods, utilize short-term working memory, and recall learned material. The Brown ADD scales are effective tools for monitoring treatment responses and are useful as components of a comprehensive assessment for diagnosis of ADD and co-morbidities.
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children -IV: Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence - IV: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale- IV: measures organic/
neurological factors related to disturbance in functioning. Provides measures of Full Scale, Verbal, and Performance intelligence. Deficits shown on Wechsler subtests are used to ascertain specific learning disabilities and cognitive dysfunction. This test is not administered solely for the purpose of determining IQ, nor is it administered for academic placement purposes. Rather, the administration and interpretation provides assistance in determining the level of disturbance of cognitive and emotional functioning. There is often an organic/neuropsychological factor related to emotional and behavior distress and this test assists in differential diagnosis of mental disorders, the degree to which affective and/or behavioral disturbances are manifested is also suggested by the qualitative levels of responses on intelligence scales. There is also a projective personality component to the patients’ responses to sections of the intelligence scale, which assists in determining the level of disturbance in reality testing (psychoses). Intelligence scales are a necessary component of any comprehensive psychological evaluation.
Woodcock-Johnson-Revised, Form B, Tests of Achievement: a norm-based assessment of reading, mathematics, written language, and knowledge.
Woodcock-Johnson-Revised, Tests of Cognitive Ability: a norm-based measure of seven cognitive factors including long-term retrieval, short-term memory, visual processing, comprehension/knowledge, processing speed, auditory processing, and fluid reasoning.
Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests, Form A: a measure of reading fluency and comprehension. Subtests administered include Word Identification, Word Attack, and Passage Comprehension, which will yield instructional grade equivalents.
Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration: a measure of the degree to which visual perception and motor behavior are integrated.
Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test: The Bender-Gestalt is used to evaluate visual-motor maturity and to screen children for developmental delays. The test is also used to assess brain damage and neurological deficits. Individuals who may have suffered a traumatic brain injury may be given the Bender-Gestalt as part of a battery of neuropsychological measures, or tests. The Bender-Gestalt is sometimes used in conjunction with other personality tests to determine the presence of emotional and psychiatric disturbances such as schizophrenia.
Gray Oral Reading Test-4: provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties. It diagnoses reading problems and identifies the child's reading style. The GORT-4 is useful in diagnosing specific problems such as skipping words, mispronunciation, and adding words.
Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing: assesses phonological awareness, phonological memory, and rapid naming. Persons with deficits in one or more of these kinds of phonological processing abilities may have more difficulty learning to read than those who do not. The CTOPP is used to aid in the identification of individuals from kindergarten through college who may profit from instructional activities to enhance their phonological skills.
Tests of Written Language-3: is a test of written composition. The aids subtests measure a student's writing competence through both essay-analysis (spontaneous) formats and traditional tests (contrived) formats. The TOWL measures capitalization, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary, syntax, grammar, and story construction skills including plot, character development, and general composition. In addition, the TOWL measures usage of vocabulary and the ability to write conceptually sound sentences and also measures syntax; it is by far the most comprehensive, reliable, and valid norm-referenced test of written language available.
Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales II: a test for developmental delays in communication, social skills, daily living skills and community living skills. This instrument also assesses the level of maladaptive behavior.
Conners Continuous Performance Test II**: a neurological test of vigilance, speed, and variability of visual information processing and ability to inhibit response. Used to assess attentional processes in children suspected of suffering Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Behavior Assessment System for Children: Child Report/ Adolescent Report: an integrated assessment system designed to facilitate differential diagnosis and classification of a variety of emotional and behavioral disorders of children and to aid in the design of treatment plans.
Behavior Assessment System for Children: Parent Version: an integrated assessment system designed to facilitate differential diagnosis and classification of a variety of emotional and behavioral disorders of children and to aid in the design of treatment plans.
Self-Esteem Inventory: a projective personality test that assesses ego strength and relationship between the child and parents. Produces a standardized measure of self-esteem.
General Anxiety Scale for Children: an objective questionnaire measuring the patient's fears, worries, and concerns that assists in determining the level of any pathological anxiety.
Feelings Inventory: a projective personality test that assists in determining the degree of affective/behavioral disturbance as well as any disturbance in reality testing.
Rorschach Psychodiagnostic Test: A projective personality test to assess possible thinking disturbance and/or psychotic process.
Children’s Apperception Test: A projective personality test to assess possible thinking disturbance and/or psychotic process.
House-Tree-Person Projective Drawings: A projective personality test that assists in measuring and/or ruling out potential psychotic process and provides other insight with regard to personality functioning.
Kinetic Family Drawing: A projective personality test that assists in measuring and/or ruling out potential psychotic process, high anxiety, familial stress issues, and provides additional insight with regard to personality functioning.
Million Pre-Adolescent Clinical Inventory/Millon Adolescent Personality Inventory /Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory: an objective personality inventory utilized to determine the nature of personality structure and assist in differential diagnosis regarding DSM-IV Axis II personality disorders. Provides data regarding measures of depression, anxiety, and other clinical features. Also assists in determining the patient's potential for abusing alcohol or other substances and suicide potential.
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory - Adolescent: an objective personality inventory that measures psychological factors related to disturbances in functioning including disturbances in reality testing (psychosis). Assesses the possible presence and extent of clinical psychopathology including major affective disorders, anxiety disorders, thought disorders, and psychotic process. Also assists in determining the patient's potential for abusing alcohol or other substances and/or suicide potential.
Adolescent Psychopathology Questionnaire: an objective measure of psychopathology for adolescents ages 12-19. The APS evaluates the severity of symptoms associated with internalizing and externalizing disorders as well as other interpersonal and mental health problems in adolescents. Clinical disorders, personality disorders and psychosocial problems are measured by the APS.
Sentence Completion Series - High School/Elementary Form: a projective personality test that assists in determining the degree of affective/behavioral disturbance as well as any disturbances in reality testing.
Child Diagnostic Screening Battery*: an extensive, parent-completed questionnaire used for psychological diagnostic purposes, yielding suggested DSM IV disorders and personality diagnoses.
Adolescent Diagnostic Screening Battery: an extensive adolescent-completed questionnaire used for psychological diagnostic purposes, yielding DSM-IV disorders and personality diagnoses.
Youth Self-Report: a youth completed assessment form including ratings of emotional symptoms, personality, behavior, attitude, attention, and cognitive functioning in the home setting, utilized in the overall psychological and diagnostic assessment process.
Parenting Stress Index*: assesses parent/ child interaction, mood difficulties, stress level, family support system and parenting competence/confidence.
Demos Drop Out Sca1e: an objective measure regarding the patient's attitudes and perceptions about education in general, school achievement, teachers, and peers. A standardized test that produces a clinical probability of the likelihood of the youngster becoming a high school dropout.
Light’s Retention Scale: an objective instrument used to determine the appropriateness of considering grade retention. The scale calculates the impact of physical maturity, learning problems, emotional difficulties and other developmental issues. Such a measurement should always be used before deciding whether or not to keep a child back a grade as this decision is too important to be left simply to the opinions of parents or educators without standardized psychometric measures.
Informal Projective Interview: a projective personality test used to determine the nature of personality structure as well as the degree of affective/behavioral disturbance.
Diagnostic Psychiatric Interview: the gathering of data regarding the patient’s developmental, psychological, familial, academic, and, when age appropriate, legal, alcohol or drug abuse, and other histories.
Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude: a test of learning aptitudes and academic processing.
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-R, Form L: a measure of receptive vocabulary.
Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children: a measure of achievement and cognitive processing skills.
Denver Developmental Test II: a developmental test that helps identify developmental delays in areas including personal-social development, fine motor, adaptive development, language development and gross motor skill development.
* Two tests completed: one completed by each of two caretakers: mother, father or other. (Number of hours reflects two administrations.) **One administration with stimulant medication; one administration without stimulant medication (to titrate).
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