Cog and Psychosocial Assessments

OT HX and CLOF

100

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

200

This observational checklist has the OTP assessing the client as a neutral observer. It's used to identify behaviors and assess whether compensatory measures may improve performance.  It can take 5-20 minutes to administer.

Comprehensive Occupational Therapy Evaluation (COTE) scale

300

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

400

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

500

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)

Performance Patterns & Environmental Supports

100

In this assessment of habits and routines, a client fills out a grid for how they spend time each day. Depending on their cognitive level, they can fill it out by themselves.

Occupational Questionnaire

200

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

300

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

400

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

500

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

Social Skills and Support

100

At 19 items, this assessment of social support was developed after a 2 year study at RAND.

Medical Outcomes Study: Survey of Social Support

200

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)

300

Shorter then the MOS, this 12 question assessment measure's a person's perception of the adequacy of social support from family, friends, and significant other.

Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS)

400

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

500

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)

Cognitive Skills

100

Uses the client's performance of progressively more difficult leather-lacing stitches to assess cognitive level.

Allen Cognitive Level Screen (ACLS)

200

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)

300

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)

400

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.

Routine Task Inventory (RTI-E)

500

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

Depression, Anxiety, and Suicide

100

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

200

This is a scale for self-reported measurements of anxiety.

Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)

300

This assessment is often used to determine appropriate calming and alerting techniques for those with psychiatric d/o's.

Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile

400

This is an abbreviated version of a longer inventory evaluating a client's frequency with different coping strategies.

Brief COPE

500

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)