Maybe the same arguments keep flaring with different people, and you leave each one wondering why it always goes this way. Maybe you are exhausted by advice to simply try harder. A Personality Disorder Assessment in Monona, WI is a way to finally understand those long running patterns rather than pin a label on you, and no referral is needed to begin.
One licensed psychologist leads the entire assessment, pairing an in depth clinical interview with established personality measures and a baseline of your cognitive and executive functioning. Because emotional and relational patterns seldom trace back to one cause, we screen with care for co occurring mood, anxiety, trauma, and attention concerns before drawing any conclusions.
In younger children, the focus stays on emotional and relational patterns rather than a personality disorder diagnosis, which is reserved for adulthood. We pay attention to intense feelings, trouble with friendships and transitions, and early patterns worth understanding, always framed as support rather than a fixed label.
Older teens may show intense, swinging emotions, a shaky sense of who they are, turbulent friendships, impulsive choices, or lasting trouble calming themselves once upset. Our aim is to understand what is driving these patterns and what genuinely helps, and any diagnosis is approached cautiously at this age.
In adults, you might notice recurring conflict in close relationships, an unsteady self image, sharp emotional swings, a deep fear of being left, or impulsive decisions. Often the same difficulties keep resurfacing no matter the setting, and many people arrive after years of partial explanations.
Your assessment opens with a clinical interview of about an hour, where your psychologist gathers a thorough history of your emotional life and relationships, from childhood through the present. This conversation surfaces the patterns, triggers, and situations that keep repeating, so the most useful measures can be chosen for you.
Guided by that interview, your psychologist selects a battery of personality and emotional functioning measures tailored to your concerns. Testing typically runs 2 to 6 hours in person across one to two days, and you take home self report questionnaires; someone close to you may complete one as well. Signs of mood, trauma, or attention concerns are screened as they appear.
Your psychologist compiles the testing data, clinical observations, and questionnaire results into a detailed, readable report. Any co occurring conditions found along the way are documented in full, so you leave with a clear and honest picture of what is driving the patterns rather than a single word.
Typically two to three weeks after testing, you return for a feedback session. Your psychologist walks you through the findings in plain terms and offers individualized recommendations, from evidence based talk therapy to practical strategies for home and work and clear next steps that fit your life.
No. You never need a referral to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. You can reach out directly, for any reason, and we will coordinate with your therapist or provider only if you would like us to.
A thorough clinical interview and personality measures built on a baseline of cognitive and executive function, with careful screening for co occurring mood, anxiety, trauma, and attention concerns. One psychologist conducts the whole process and explains what the results mean.
No. Understanding is what we are after, not a label to file you under. If a diagnosis genuinely fits, it is only one thread in a much larger picture, and the part that changes your life is the set of specific, individualized recommendations you leave with.
Generally not. With children and younger teens, the work centers on making sense of emotional and relational patterns and what supports them, rather than assigning a diagnosis that belongs to adulthood.
A plain language report and a feedback session with practical recommendations, including therapy approaches and supports matched to what the assessment actually found.
Call our Madison office at (608) 396 4830 and we will find a time that works for you. No referral is needed to book.
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