Maybe you have been telling yourself it is just stress, but the flatness has settled in and refused to leave. Maybe your teenager has gone quiet in a way that worries you. A Depression Evaluation in Hartford, WI is built to find out what is underneath that low mood and what to do about it, and you can begin without any referral.
We ground every Depression Evaluation in a baseline of cognitive and executive function, because how you concentrate, plan, and remember tells us a great deal before mood testing even starts. The assessment is then tailored to your particular concerns, guided start to finish by a single licensed psychologist who also screens for the conditions that frequently sit beside depression.
Younger kids rarely say they feel sad; more often it comes out as irritability and shorter fuses. You might notice a child who no longer wants to play, whose eating or sleeping has changed, who reports aches with no clear cause, or whose grades have started to slide.
With teens, look for withdrawal from friends and the things they once cared about, a persistent low or irritable mood, and exhaustion that rest does not fix. Hopeless talk, altered sleep and appetite, and slipping performance at school often round out the picture.
In adults it tends to look like a mood that stays low week after week, interest draining out of once enjoyable things, and a tiredness that sleep does not touch. Appetite and sleep shift, focus becomes hard to hold, and life starts to feel like going through the motions.
We begin with a one hour interview in which your psychologist collects a detailed history, tracing things from early life up through your current mood, energy, and functioning. That conversation is what lets us separate depression from similar looking conditions and choose the assessments most likely to give a clear diagnosis.
Next, your psychologist assembles a battery of mood and psychological measures made for your situation, usually 2 to 6 hours of in person testing across one or two days. Self report questionnaires go home with you, someone close to you may fill one out as well, and any hint of anxiety, ADHD, or bipolar disorder gets screened.
All of it, the test data, the clinical observations, the questionnaires, is drawn together into a thorough diagnostic report. The heart of that report is differential diagnosis, where your psychologist judges whether depression, another condition, or a combination best accounts for the symptoms, and documents anything co occurring.
About two to three weeks after testing you come back for feedback. Your psychologist explains the diagnosis in full and offers individualized recommendations, from evidence based therapy and lifestyle strategies to medication guidance when it fits and clear next steps for your specific needs.
No, never. You do not need anyone to refer you to Core Spring Diagnostics. You can contact us yourself, whenever you are ready and for whatever reason, and we will guide you from there.
You get a clinical interview, a baseline of cognitive and executive function, mood and emotional testing, and screening for related concerns such as anxiety, trauma, and bipolar patterns, all delivered by the same psychologist.
A brief screening only signals that something might be off. A full evaluation gets to the bottom of it, sorts out the look alikes, and produces individualized recommendations you can genuinely put to use.
Yes. Children, teens, and adults are all welcome, and we adapt the process to each person’s age and stage so it fits where they are.
A report written so you can understand it, plus a feedback session where the diagnosis is explained and you receive individualized recommendations and a defined path toward support.
Give us a call at (414) 387-2100 and we will find a time that works. No referral is necessary, and there is no pressure to commit before your questions are answered.
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