Our evaluations are designed to identify underlying math-related difficulties and understand how they impact academic performance and confidence. We take a detailed and individualized approach to ensure each person’s learning profile is clearly understood.
Every evaluation rests on a baseline of cognitive and executive function, which we then expand with mood measures and a detailed history of how your moods have cycled over time. A single licensed psychologist manages the whole process, and a central task throughout is screening for the conditions bipolar disorder tends to be confused with.
In young children, mood patterns are assessed carefully and without haste, because so many conditions resemble one another at that stage. Instead of moving toward a label early, we develop the complete picture over time, observing how energy, sleep, and behavior shift in relation to each other.
For teenagers, watch for clearly separate stretches of elevated or irritable energy that alternate with heavy, withdrawn low periods. Sleep and activity can swing markedly, impulsivity may appear, and the shifts register as larger and more patterned than the ordinary ups and downs of the teen years.
In adults, elevated, expansive, or irritable spells of mood and energy tend to alternate with depression, and sleep, activity, and judgment move with them. Many bring a long history that never fit one explanation, along with a persistent sense that earlier accounts left key parts unexplained.
Your evaluation starts with roughly an hour of interview in which your psychologist develops a full history of your mood, energy, and behavior from childhood through your life today. This is where the cycling patterns that separate bipolar disorder from other mood conditions come into view, and it directs the choice of assessments.
Your psychologist then builds a battery of mood and psychological measures fitted to the full range of your experiences, typically 2 to 6 hours of in person testing spread over one to two days. Self report questionnaires travel home with you, someone close can supply their own perspective on your patterns over time, and any signs of ADHD, anxiety, or depression are screened as well.
All of the material, the testing data, the clinical observations, the questionnaire results, is compiled into a detailed diagnostic report. Since accurate differentiation is so important with bipolar disorder, your psychologist carefully considers episode history and symptom presentation and documents any co occurring conditions in full.
About two to three weeks afterward you return for a feedback session, where your psychologist walks you through the diagnosis in plain terms. You leave with individualized recommendations addressing treatment planning, evidence based therapy, medication considerations, lifestyle management, and the next steps suited to you.
No. A referral is never a requirement for being seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. You can get in touch with us directly, for any reason, and start whenever you feel ready.
A detailed clinical interview and history, a cognitive and executive function baseline, mood measures, and careful screening for the conditions that mirror bipolar patterns, all conducted by one psychologist.
Because bipolar patterns are commonly confused with depression, anxiety, ADHD, and trauma, and the appropriate support depends on getting the picture right. A thorough history and evaluation are what make the difference.
Yes. We work with teens as well as adults, and with younger clients we approach mood patterns cautiously, given that many conditions look alike early on.
Phone us at (414) 387-2100 and we will outline the process and set up a time that works for you. There is nothing to prepare before you call.
A plain language report and a feedback session offering individualized recommendations and a clear path toward the right support for you.
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