Why Choose The Aspen Institute of Behavioral Assessment?

The Aspen Institute for Behavioral Assessment is a unique resource that provides parents and professionals with extensive adolescent assessment services to gain clarity of diagnosis and determine optimal intervention options. Services include:

• Comprehensive evaluations and assessments based on six full weeks of observation by qualified psychologists and psychiatrists. The depth and breadth of psychiatric and psychological testing includes Wechsler, MMPI, TAT, and numerous other psychosocial, learning, and behavioral assessments.



• Individually specific testing and evaluations performed during optimal times for the adolescent. Timing is critical to get a holistic, focused picture of what is going on with the child, and the resulting prescriptive plan is subsequently more reliable and clear. Immediate medication evaluation, titration of psychotropic drugs, or implementation of a new medication regiment.



• Frequent exposure to licensed professionals - including a psychiatrist, therapist, psychologist and nurse - which significantly contributes to the child's therapeutic gains. At minimum, each week teens have three 50 minute individual therapy sessions and five 60 minute group therapy sessions with a licensed therapist. In addition, the therapists are on-site daily.



• True classroom environments where each child spends four hours a day, five days a week. Executive functioning, learning styles and the child's response in a "real" classroom environment can be assessed, and this data becomes part of the comprehensive, holistic assessment. Since the child will spend a major part of their adolescent life in the classroom, this information is critical.



• A highly individualized level of care for adolescents struggling with a wide range of difficulties. The Institute's milieu is ideal for young people dealing with predominant psychiatric issues such as mood disorders, anxiety disorders, trauma, OCD, bereavement, eating disorders, etc. Length of stay can be tailored to individual needs and are not driven by programmatic constraints.



• Superior prescriptive protocols based on both the comprehensive level of assessment and the quantity and quality of treatment provided, ultimately leading to better, more informed placement decisions.