Dr. Balada is experienced in assessing children and adults in a wide array of issues and disorders, including:
The following are assessment testing tools that Dr. Balada routinely performs:
- Personality Assessments
- MMPI-2: Clinical personality assessment for adults
- MMPI-A: Clinical personality assessment for adolescents
- RORSCHACH: Psychodiagnostic Assessment
- ADIS: Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule
- BDI: Beck Depression Inventory
- CDI: Child Depression Inventory
- PIC: Personality Inventory for Children
- ROS: Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank - Adult
- TAT: Thematic Apperception Test
- CBCL: Child Behavior Checklist
- Cognitive Assessments
- WAIS: IQ assessment for adults/teens
- WISC: IQ assessment for children
- WPPSI: IQ assessment for preschool children
- Achievement Assessments
- WIAT: Achievement test for PreK-Adult
- WJ: The Woodcock Johnson Psychoeducational Battery
- WRAT: Wide Range Achievement Test
- ADHD Assessments
- Connors (Global, Parent, Teacher, Self-Report)
- Connors (CPT: CPT-K): ADHD/Neurological screener
- Test of Variables of Attention (TOVA, IVA+Plus)
- Comprehensive Executive Function Inventory (CEFI)
- Connors Adult ADHD Rating Scale (CAARS)
- Neurological Screeners
- WCST: Executive functioning
- Trails A & B: Executive functioning
- Wechsler Memory Scale Fourth Edition (WMS)
- FAS: Verbal Fluency test
- Bender Gestalt: Motor functioning
- Autism Diagnostic Assessment Tools
- The Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI)
- The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS)
- The Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS)
- The Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (CHAT)
- The Gilliam Autism Rating Scale (GARS)
- The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales (VABS)
- The Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist (ACBC)
- The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)
- Family Assessments
- The Family Assessment Interview (FAI)
- The Family Environmental Scale (FES)
- Custody Assessments
- The Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI)
- The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)
- The Child Abuse Potential Inventory (CAPI)
- MMPI-2: Clinical Personality Assessment for Adults (MPPI-2)