What is the main purpose of psychological evaluation?

The main purpose of psychological evaluation is to evaluate the psychological process of patients in the process of disease occurrence and development, find existing or potential psychological and mental health problems, and provide scientific basis for psychological and mental health care.

Psychological evaluation can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. Psychological evaluation in a broad sense refers to the evaluation of various psychological and behavioral problems, which can be used in medicine, psychology and sociology. It is mainly used to evaluate behavior, cognitive ability, personality traits and the characteristics of individuals and groups to help people make judgments, predictions and decisions. Psychological evaluation in a narrow sense, also known as clinical evaluation, refers to the use of professional psychological methods and techniques in the field of psychological outpatient service and consultation to make corresponding judgments on the psychological state, personality characteristics and mental health of visitors, make correct explanations when necessary, and conduct comprehensive analysis and appraisal on this basis, thus providing the necessary premise and guarantee for psychological consultation and treatment. Evaluation at different stages

Psychological evaluation in the acceptance stage

The assessment task at this stage is to collect the relevant information of the visitors, make a preliminary judgment on the problem status and background information of the visitors, so as to identify whether they receive psychological counseling and treatment provided by the institutions, especially those visitors with obvious mental illness characteristics who need the intervention of professional medical institutions, which need to be assessed and referred.

Psychological evaluation in the initial stage of counseling

In the initial stage of psychological counseling, the counselor is evaluated from three aspects through acceptance and initial interview.

(1) Evaluation of basic information of visitors: name, gender, personal experience, family environment, education level and whether they take psychotropic drugs, etc.

(2) Evaluation of the main problems and psychological state of Ben and Ben;

(3) The main problems of visitors and the evaluation of their psychological state.

Psychological evaluation in the middle stage of consultation

With the development of psychological counseling, evaluation becomes particularly important. One of the prerequisites for the success of psychological counseling is that the counselor should make clear the direction, goal and plan of counseling. In the process of consultation, the counselor needs to reach an agreement with the client on the adjustment of the consultation goal and the later goal, which are based on psychological evaluation.

Psychological evaluation in the later stage of psychological counseling

In the later stage of negotiation, the negotiation relationship between the two sides is coming to an end. At this time, psychological evaluation can consolidate the problem solving of visitors.

(1) Consultants need to evaluate whether the consulting objectives have been achieved. If the visitors have not changed positively, they need to reflect on the consultation relationship and objectives in the whole consultation process and make adjustments.

(2) The consultant will tell the visitors the results of the evaluation, let them know their own changes, and promote the consolidation and solution of the problem.

(3) Consultant evaluation, which evaluates whether the visitors have a sense of dependence on the consultant and whether they feel lost after consultation.