AHPGS(Accreditation Agency in Health and Social Sciences)
06 December 2019 Friday
Psychologist Ayşe Karaaslan: Psychological tests applied to the children are important for their development
Clinical Psychologist Ayşe Karaaslan stated that families get uneasy at first when they suddenly encounter with the tests that should be applied to their children who see psychologists, and said that while receiving psychological support, the tests to be applied to the children or some acquired information are very important for the child's developmental follow-up.
She said that objective tests are one of the most reliable methods to take the child's mental x-ray and families should not worry, and continued as follows: “When an intelligence test is performed on an 8-year-old child, the scores obtained from the test are evaluated by taking into consideration the age of the child. Similarly, the evaluation scores of a child with developmental disability are interpreted according to the age and educational level of the child. This is a very important step for the child if it is detected early by these tests.”
