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Psychological Assessment

healthWORKZ provides psychological assessment and evaluation services to insurance companies, employers, workers compensation specialists, medical doctors, and attorneys in coordination with other health care providers.

We untangle the sticky problem behind puzzling barriers in recovery, regression in functional improvement, and challenging patient behavior.

Our assessment helps explain a patient’s delayed recovery, and offers pragmatic recommendations for getting back on track. We address issues like:

  • Mood disturbance
  • Anxiety or panic disorder
  • Learned helplessness
  • Paralyzing fear, decreased activity and loss of pleasure
  • Frustration, anger, grief and loss reactions
  • Substance abuse & medication addiction
  • Isolation & disruption in intimate relationships
  • Disturbance in physician-patient relationship
  • Doctor shopping or medical non-compliance

Very often in prolonged and complex cases, it becomes nearly impossible for treatment providers to differentiate between medical, psychological, emotional, motivational and personality variables that explain the individual’s atypical symptom and functional profile. Our robust and empirically validated assessment methodology provides objective data and integrative analysis on an array of inter-related factors including:

  • Personal and Medical History
  • Behavior Analysis
  • Truthfulness and Validity (i.e., Level of effort, Malingering, Factitiousness, Conscious & Unconscious Motivations, Primary/Secondary Gain Issues, Consistency, Defensiveness, Symptom Exaggeration)
  • Personality, Intelligence and Socio-cultural Variables
  • Health Symptoms
  • Cognitive/Neuropsychological Functioning
  • Ecological Validity
  • Adaptive Functioning

Why Us?


We deliver meticulous, ecologically valid psychological profiles along with targeted outcome measures for treatment services. Our analysis focuses on revealing trends, highlighting inconsistencies or deviations, and guiding complex differential diagnosis resulting in usable treatment recommendations.

What makes us unique is our robust evaluation methodology assessing for dissimulation variables (i.e., truthfulness, malingering, defensiveness, over-reporting, and factitiousness), validity, level of effort, consistency, and motivational factors that help explain atypical, abnormal, or inconsistent symptom profiles.

In short, we deliver valuable solutions with practical utility… not vague clinical opinions, partial subjective summaries based on limited objective data, or cryptic personality profiles lacking specificity, usability, or sensitivity to the patient’s unique situation.

 

Methodology

healthWORKZ is dedicated to a philosophy of health that stresses individual responsibility, action, and the application of behavioral science knowledge and techniques to recovery, wellness and prevention.

Our interdisciplinary service delivery model is based on best practices in health psychology, forensic psychology, and behavioral medicine.

We employ industry-standard psychological evaluation methods, population-specific psychometric instruments, and assess for both general and client-specific variables linked to current functioning.

Our methodology is designed to gather objective data in multiple domains, using multiple measures of similar constructs. The data we gather informs us, and other healthcare providers, on the patient’s unique environmental context, readiness of change, personality factors, biopsychosocial variables, and capacities for adaptive functioning in specific domains (e.g., work, home, leisure, community).

Our Team

Dr. Robert Coleman is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist specializing in behavioral medicine and health psychology. Dr. Coleman approaches therapy from a wellness and whole-person perspective and has specialized training in:

Dr. David Zierk is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist specializing in couples and family counseling, and working with individuals experiencing relationship-based difficulties. Dr. Zierk has over 20 years experience working with individuals who suffered catastrophic injuries with permanent and life-altering consequences and chronic pain. Dr. Zierk addresses issues like:

  • Communication
  • Intimacy
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Anger and Mood Management
  • Parenting & Difficult Children
  • Chronic Pain & Somatoform Disorders
  • Vocational Rehabilitation
 


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