Emily Escott, PsyD. and her team conduct assessments that are used by individuals in varying disciplines including: businesses, caregivers, coaches, educators, employers, and EAP facilitators - in order to gain greater diagnostic clarity. These services are available at Royal Oak and St. Clair Shores locations.
Psychological and neuropsychological testing involves a comprehensive assessment of emotional, personality, and brain function using standardized tests and clinical procedures as well as patient report. These examinations involves a variety of tasks, which vary depending on the reason for your evaluation and your individual needs. Most tasks during the evaluations are completed while sitting at a table. There are no painful or invasive procedures such as needles or electrodes. Clinical evaluations often involve 1 to 6 hours of face-to-face contact, although this varies significantly based on the referral question and other factors. Results are provided approximately 1-3 weeks following completion of the evaluation; the time it takes to obtain results depends on the referral question and the amount and complexity of testing that was done.
Intake appointments last about an hour. During the intake appointment, your clinician will collect your personal and family medical history, life history, employment and educational background, potential substance abuse issues, current concerns, and symptoms.
Depending on the type of testing that you have done, appointments can last between one to six hours. Testing can include numerous components such as norm-referenced psychological tests, informal tests and surveys, interview information, school or medical records, medical evaluation, and observational data. These components focus on how you how you think, feel, and behave in order to conclude accurate results.
Feedback meetings last between a half hour to an hour. During feedback meetings, your clinician will present the results of your testing. You will have time to ask questions and receive explanations of the results.
Toddlers, Children, and Adolescents ranging in age from 12 months to 18 years may require evaluations for a variety of reasons. Evaluations for toddlers and young children are often broken up into multiple appointments as needed based on the individual attention span and tolerance level of the child. Psychological evaluations may be requested on children and adolescents for the following reasons:
As part of the process for egg donors, egg recipients, sperm recipients, gestational carriers, and intended parents of gestational carriers a psychological screening must be completed.
Many life-changing surgical procedures including Spinal Cord Stimulator implant and Bariatric surgeries require a pre-surgical psychological evaluation to assess the patient's readiness and preparedness for surgery.
Adults aged 16 and up may require psychological or neuropsychological evaluation for a variety of reasons. These evaluations may vary in length from 3 hours to 6 hours depending on the concern or referral question. Appointments are often broken up into a series of three visits. At the first visit, a comprehensive interview is completed that assists the evaluator in development of an appropriate testing battery for your individual needs. The second appointment involves administration of testing procedures. At the third appointment, Dr. Escott will review the results of the evaluation with you and provide treatment recommendations including assisting you in connecting with treating professionals that can assist with your individual needs. Adults may require a psychological or neuropsychological evaluation for many reasons:
Psychological evaluations are helpful to reduce risk for individuals, agencies, and communities for those in the public safety field. Psychological evaluations are often conducted for pre-employment, fitness for duty, and special assignment. We can assess applicants for positions such as police officer, corrections officer, firefighter, dispatcher, and probation officer, as well as incumbent officers who are moving into special assignments, or who have encountered some psychological problems (or exposure to critical incidents) that are affecting their ability to perform the essential duties of the job.
As a courtesy to public safety offices, evaluations may be given in a group setting on-site at your agency if you have the need for several evaluations to be completed.
A comprehensive psychological testing battery, which takes about 3-4 hours to complete, is administered to the potential employee. This battery is designed to collect a large amount of information from the applicant in a structured and efficient manner. The test battery includes measures of emotional stability, normal personality traits, and anger management. The applicant will also participate in a comprehensive interview with Dr. Escott covering employment, education, driving, finances, arrests, substance abuse, relationships, and mental health treatment as well as other topics. Finally, a report summarizing the results of the interview and the interpretation of the tests is written. The report is intended to be easy to read and offers a clear recommendation regarding employment.
Dr. Emily Escott is a Licensed Psychologist who offers a variety of evaluation and consultation services including psychological and neuropsychological evaluations, pre-employment and return-to-work/school evaluations, third party reproduction evaluations, pre-surgical evaluations, guardianship & disability evaluations, and forensic evaluations. Dr. Escott is also strongly committed to training and professional development and enjoys working with students and early career psychologists to assist them in development of clinical and professional skills.
