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 info@lifespan-psychotherapy.co.uk
telephone: 0796 224 8848
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Why would I request a clinical assessment?
Organisations and individuals ask for an assessment to be undertaken for a variety of reasons such as:
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Unsure as to the underlying reasons for the behaviour of a child and how best to help the child?
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Unsure about the best placement for a child, is it appropriate for the child to be placed with other children, is foster care or specialist residential care an option?
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Needing an informed assessment for court in terms of adoption or family issues?
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Require an assessment which will identify the best ways to assist the child in recovery from neglect and trauma?
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Current placement reaching disruption and need an accurate assessment and provision of recommendations?
How can such a report be provided?
It is completed ‘blind’, in that the only information the assessor requires prior to undertaking the assessment is the name, age of child and reason for referral.
In this way the assessment is not contaminated by historical information.
He then undertakes the assessment process which is play based, which under normal circumstances can be completed with one session of two hours. This uses a variety of evidence based approaches which validates informations across a variety of approaches (structured play, drawings, projective play, story completion, etc)
  
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