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Clients are tested on their ability to effectively and efficiently locate items in a grocery store. Takes 1 hour to administer.
The Test of Grocery Shopping Skills
Occupational Questionnaire
At 19 items, this assessment of social support was developed after a 2 year study at RAND.
Medical Outcomes Study: Survey of Social Support
Uses the client's performance of progressively more difficult leather-lacing stitches to assess cognitive level.
Allen Cognitive Level Screen (ACLS)
36-item Short Survey to measure quality of life. It is used to help assess emotional well-being, as well as social functioning, energy, and general health perceptions.
Rand SF-36 Health Survey Questionnaire
Comprehensive Occupational Therapy Evaluation (COTE) scale
This assessment uses 89 photographs for clients to divide activities between what they did prior to their admission and what they did not prior to their admission as well as their top 5 activities.
Activity Card Sort
90-items that are self-reported, this measures the basic skill in nonverbal/emotional communication as well verbal/social skills related to social competence
Social Skills Inventory (SSI)
Lasting 30-45 minutes, this assesses components of functioning, including cognitive abilities related to act on the environment appropriately.
Bay Area Functional Performance Evaluation (BaFPE)
This is a scale for self-reported measurements of anxiety.
Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)
This standardized test determines a person's ability to function with basic living skills. It is a combination of both questions and tasks, and it typcially takes 30-45 minutes to administer.
The Kohlman Evaluation of Living Skills aka KELS
This is a 10-item screening tool that measures a client's participation levels, satisfaction with participation, and reasons for non-participation.
The Role Checklist
Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS)
This assesses long-term, short-term, and working memory. The 30-point questionnaire also screens for orientation, attention, and executive functions. It takes 7-10 minutes, and is used to gauge early changes in cognitive abilities and the need for further assessment.
St. Louis Mental Status Examination (SLUMS)
Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile
This semi-structured interview assessment takes 10-20 minutes to complete and measures the client's own perceptions about his/her/they occupational performance.
The COPM aka Canadian Occupational Performance Measure
This questionnaire can take 5 minutes to score, but it's administration can take as long as it takes a person to participate in an occupation. It is made up of 14 questions and provides insight into a person's inner motivation and how the environment affects the person's intrinsic motivation, personal causation, and values/interests to participate in an occupation.
Volitional Questionnaire
This psychosocial instrument assesses whether groups or individuals are behaving appropriately in social situations for their age group.
Social Profile: Assessment of Social Participation in Children, Adolescents, and Adults
This has a FREE to download manual. It assesses the degree to which cognitive abilities/disabilities interfere with every day task performance. It is administered as an observation during routine tasks.
This is an abbreviated version of a longer inventory evaluating a client's frequency with different coping strategies.
Brief COPE
This assessment was originally developed for adults with chronic mental health issues of at least 2 years. It measures their ability to do basic and complex activities of daily living. It is criterion-referenced and can take up to an hour to complete.
Milwaukee Evaluation of Daily Living Skills (MEDLS)
One hour interview assessment designed to describe the perceived role participation of older adults, from current to changes, as well as importance/values of those roles.
Role Change Assessment
Quality of a person's social interaction during real interaction with people they typically interact with is measure with this assessment. Appropriate for anyone over 2.5 y/o.
Evaluation of Social Interaction (ESI)
This 30-question examination evaluates attention, orientation, memory, registration, recall, calculation, language, and the ability to draw a complex polygon. A score of 24 or below is considered abnormal and potential cognitive impairment.
Folstein Mini-Mental State Examination
Used to measure anxiety and depression in the general medical population of clients, it focuses more on non-physical symptoms.
Hospital and Anxiety Depression Sacle (HADS)