Talk:Psychological evaluation

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In the section about situations requiring a psychological evaluation, I think it should be added that it may be required to determine whether someone who is seeking disability is disabled or not. I am not editing the page because I have no source for this other than personal experience. Perhaps someone could find a source, and make the edit.

Perhaps "...lead to a diagnosis..." would be a more appropriate wording than "...result in a diagnosis...".

diagnosis claim is dubious

this is an article about psychological evaluation. in my experience this normally results in a formulation - and can assist with diagnosis. this article needs citations please Earlypsychosis (talk) 07:56, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Not all evaluations are for the purpose of diagnostic clarification, and disability eligbility (ooh, what an awful-sounding pair of words) is one of the other purposes. Noted. Mirafra (talk) 23:18, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Will probably eventually need to split off Psychological assessment from Psychological evaluation

Right now Psychological assessment leads as a redirect to this article, although in the professional literature the terms are somewhat distinct. I'll try to add some references meanwhile. Later the distinct articles will both need development. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 03:17, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Urgent clarifications needed !

1. the serch term "psychiatric evaluation" redirects in a totally and factually inappropriate manner to "psychological evaluation". Even wikipedia itself takes great pains in showing the very significant difference between psychiatry and psychology, and most certainly a psychiatric evaluation is not the same as a psychological evaluation, does not contain the same elements, examines different aspects of human consciousness, and furthermore the first one is performed in totally different manner by a psychiatrist than the second one which is performed by a psychologist;

2. while the page with the definition and description of the "psychiatric evaluation" is missing altogether, which may be OK for the time being, because then one would ethically also have to take under serious consideration separate articles for each of the specific types of evaluations for each specific medical specialty, such as "ophthalmology evaluation", or "gastroenterology evaluation", etc., I nevertheless feel that the need for clarification for the educational benefit of the general public is great enough to actually justify the suggestion to at least strat thinking about opening a new article named "psychiatric evaluation", linked to the page which generally describes what "psychiatry" is;

3. even this definition and description of the "psychological evaluation" is so unbelievably weak and incomplete that I would literally suggest scrapping it and starting from scratch;

4. I would personally also suggest as ethical a little mention somewhere, either on the "psychiatry" page, or on the "psychology" page, or even on both pages, a little "warning !" sign with the written exhortation, "not to be confused with...[insert "psychology" on the "psychiatry" page or vice-versa]".

Rudolph Aspirant 12th August, 2011 02:53, Rome

84.210.21.34 (talk) 00:47, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]