Psychological Testing

Aka: Psychological Testing, Psychiatric Testing

1. Evaluation: Major Depression
   1. Hamilton-D (age > 18 years)
   2. Beck Depression Inventory (age > 18 years)
   3. Zung Depression Rating Scale
   4. Geriatric Depression Scale
2. Evaluation: Anxiety Disorder
   1. Hamilton Anxiety Scale
3. Evaluation: Competency
   1. Protective placement
4. Evaluation: Psychosis
   1. Rorschach
   2. MMPI
5. Evaluation: Organicity
   1. Bender
   2. Plutchik
   3. Luria-Nebraska
6. Evaluation: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
   1. Mississippi Scale for PTSD
   2. MMPI
   3. Sentence Completion Test
   4. Millon
7. Evaluation: Personality profile
   1. MMPI
   2. Millon
   3. NEOPI
   4. Myers-Briggs
8. Evaluation: Dementia
   1. Cognitive Capacity Screening Exam (CCSE)
   2. Mattis Dementia Rating Scale (MDRS)
   3. Dementia Rating Scale (DRS)
   4. Mini-Mental State Exam
   5. Plutchik Geriatric Rating Scale
9. Evaluation: Other Tests
   1. Cal Verbal Learning Test (modification of Henri Ray)
      1. Tests word list recall, recognition, and cued recall
   2. Selective Reminding Test
      1. Differentiates early Alzheimer's from normal ageing
      2. Consonant trigrams interruptive memory
   3. Verbal fluency:
      1. Controlled Oral Word Association
         1. Words starting with F
      2. Category Fluency Test
         1. Name Fruits, Vegetables
   4. Language
      1. Multilingual Aphasia exam
      2. Token test of verbal comprehension
   5. Apraxia and perseveration
      1. Draw a Clock
   6. Memory-Wexler (paragraph recognition, recall)
      1. Internal memory
   7. Executive Function
      1. WI card sort
      2. Category Test
      3. Mazes
   8. Concentration
      1. Digit span
      2. Immediate memory
   9. Orientation
10. Resources
    1. Psychiatric Depression Scales Resource
       1. http://neurotransmitter.net/depressionscales.html