Social-emotional and Behavioral Evaluations

Social-emotional and behavioral assessments are undertaken to better understand a child’s psychological functioning across several domains. It can help to identify a child’s symptoms mood, anxiety, anger, sadness, or difficulty interacting with peers, teachers, or parents. A social-emotional behavioral evaluation can help to provide a road map for intervention and treatment services.

A Social-emotional Behavioral Evaluation can be undertaken to address:

Anxiety
Depression
Social problems
Anger and Aggressive behavior

What Do Social-emotional & behavioral Evaluations include?

Interviews with parents and child
Direct testing of student’s social and emotional functioning
Behavior questionnaires completed by parents and teachers
A review of school and other records (as needed)
Consultations with other professionals (as needed)
Scoring and interpretation of testing data
A written summary of testing results
Feedback session to review findings and specific recommendations