DESCRIBE OBJECTIVE BEHAVIORS AND ASSOCIATE THEM WITH CONSTRUCTS, e,g., “Anxiety”, only if you have convergent validity (if it’s associated with a statement, affect, history, clear pattern of behaviors)
- General appearance, e.g., height, build, dress, appears stated age
- Attitude toward testing
- Level of cooperativeness, perseverance, comfort level, tolerance for frustration, confidence level, comfort in approaching difficult or unfamiliar tasks,
- Hearing, vision or fine/gross motor problems
- Approach toward tasks (organized, perfectionistic, hesitant, slow, quick, etc.)
- Speech (articulation; rate; mumbling, voice trailing off, etc. and language, e.g., vocabulary usage, sentence structure, grammar, tangential, circumlocution, expressive vs. receptive language.
- Mood and ROA; euthymic
- Inattention, distractibility, motor restlessness, e.g., “Attention and concentration were well-maintained”
- Variability in performance within and/or between subtests
- Noteworthy behaviors, affect, statements
- State if the results appear to be valid
ASSESSMENT RESULTS:
Child Clinical Interview –
Parent Interview –
Results of Assessment Instruments –
INSTRUMENTS –
- Describe the instrument; what it measures and an overview of domains, scales, etc.
- Provide the results (only include t-scores when results are clinically significant)
- (Include a table with results either in the body of the report but preferably at the end)
CLINICAL FORMULATION
Relate significant behavioral observations to results.
Discuss the major findings and supportive evidence for each hypothesis, theme or finding.
- DON’T INCLUDE ANY NUMBERS; mention range, mention “strength” or “weakness”.
- Copy and paste this section into the Summary.