A mental wellness test is designed as a screening tool to determine how someone is doing, often during a crisis. Similarly, a mental stability test can be done outside these urgent times to determine your susceptibility to a crisis. Finally, a mental well-being test is a shorter version of both types of assessments. We provide these services, which are both relatively inexpensive and can be done virtually.
We would be happy to discuss which of the three types of assessments may best suit your unique needs and questions, so please don’t hesitate to contact us or schedule a consultation anytime.
Mental Wellness Test Services
Feel free to contact us anytime or schedule a consultation to discuss these services. These services are easy to schedule, can be done virtually, and do not take long. Here is an overview to get you started.
Reasons for a Mental Wellness Test
There are many reasons why you might want a mental wellness test. Here are some of the most common:
- You are facing a predicable challenge in your life, and you want to be sure you have the inner resources to handle it
- You have not felt like yourself lately and want to make sure this is just a temporary feeling
- There has been a significant challenge in your life, and you want to check to be sure that recovery is going well
- You have been experiencing symptoms of stress, anxiety, or depression and want to understand their severity
- People have commented that you don’t seem happy, content, or calm, and you want to understand this better
- You’ve been having more trouble than usual managing stress and don’t know why
This is not an exhaustive list, but it should give you an idea of how this testing can benefit you.
Aspects of a Mental Wellness Test
A mental wellness test battery typically consists of assessments designed to evaluate various behavioral health and well-being aspects. Here are the components we might include in a comprehensive mental wellness test battery:
- General Mental Health Assessment: This is designed to determine whether you might have a specific mental health diagnosis or symptoms that put you at risk for one. It may also give us a chance to test whether a diagnosis you think you have may actually be something else. This may also include a self-report questionnaire measuring subjective well-being and quality of life.
- Stress Assessment: More commonly used in mental stability tests, which we will cover later, this type of assessment involves self-report questionnaires that measure the perception of stress in one’s life.
- Emotional Intelligence Assessment: These measure various aspects of emotional intelligence, such as self-awareness, empathy, and social skills. They can be given at intervals to see whether these issues worsen when stressed.
- Resilience Assessment: Assessing your resilience in coping with stress and adversity can help during a mental wellness test. This may also include a self-report questionnaire assessing various coping strategies you use to manage stress and adversity.
- Mindfulness Assessment: We often assess different aspects of mindfulness, including observing, describing, acting with awareness, non-judging of inner experience, and non-reactivity to inner experience.
- Social Support Assessment: We might use a self-report questionnaire to assess perceived social support from family, friends, and significant others. We might also measure global self-esteem.
Each assessment provides valuable insights into wellness, allowing for a comprehensive evaluation of your behavioral health status and potential areas for intervention or improvement.
Mental Wellness Test Examples
The following are just a few examples of the types of mental wellness test we might use:
- Beck Depression Inventory (BDI): This questionnaire is commonly used to assess the severity of depression symptoms. It consists of 21 multiple-choice questions about mood, pessimism, past failures, loss of pleasure, and other symptoms associated with depression.
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale: The GAD-7 is a brief questionnaire used to assess the severity of generalized anxiety disorder symptoms. It consists of seven questions about nervousness, worry, and restlessness.
- Patient Health Questionnaire: Similar to the BDI, the PHQ-9 is a self-administered tool for screening and diagnosing depression. It consists of nine questions about depressive symptoms experienced over the past two weeks.
- Kessler Psychological Distress Scale: The K10 is a self-report questionnaire used to measure psychological distress. It consists of 10 questions about symptoms such as nervousness, restlessness, and feeling hopeless.
- Mental Health Continuum-Short Form: This questionnaire assesses emotional and social well-being across three categories: flourishing, languishing, and moderate behavioral health.
- NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI): A self-report questionnaire assessing the Big Five personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
If you’re concerned about your mental health, we may not be your best first call. You may want to seek help from a licensed psychologist. They can offer support, guidance, and treatment options tailored to your needs. Then, psychological testing, such as we provide, might be useful to help guide your treatment.
Mental Stability Test Services
Testing for mental or psychological stability typically involves a more comprehensive assessment than a mental wellness test. These assessments evaluate your emotional state, cognitive functioning, behavior, and overall well-being. Here are some common methods used in these assessments:
Mental Stability Test Interviews 
We conduct in-depth interviews to gather information about your current symptoms, personal history, family history, and other relevant factors that may impact mental stability. You may be asked to complete standardized questionnaires or scales to assess your mental health symptoms, functioning, and quality of life. These measures can provide valuable information about your subjective experiences and perceptions.
Mental Status Examination
This is a structured assessment used to evaluate a person’s cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning. It typically includes observations and assessments of your mood, thought processes, perception, cognition, and insight. This examination is often compared to how you had previously been doing in these areas or how you usually do to determine how you react to stress.
Psychological Testing
Various standardized assessments may be used to measure specific aspects of mental stability, such as personality traits, intelligence, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and psychotic disorders. Examples include the MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) and the RorschInkblot Test. We might also combine the assessment tools listed in the previous section.
Observational Assessments
Observing an individual’s behavior in different settings can provide valuable information about their emotional stability. This may involve direct observation by us or reports from family members, caregivers, or other individuals who interact with you regularly.
Our goal with a mental stability test is to provide in-depth advice and suggestions on improving overall wellness and stability and developing new coping strategies. We can repeat some of the testing at a later date to see if those strategies worked.
It’s important to note that emotional stability is a complex and multifaceted concept; no single mental stability test or assessment can definitively determine it. We will use a combination of methods to evaluate emotional stability comprehensively and develop appropriate conclusions and recommendations tailored to your needs.
Mental Well-being Test Services
Mental well-being test services are less comprehensive than mental wellness assessments, as they are more of a point-in-time brief assessment. These assessments evaluate your current emotional state, often in response to situational stress or upcoming challenges. The goal of a mental well-being test is often to check on how you are doing after experiencing a significant event or how you might cope with a predictable change.
Here are some common methods used in mental well-being test services:
Mental Well-being Test Interviews
We conduct interviews to get information about your current stressors, upcoming challenges, and other factors that may impact your emotional well-being in the near future. You may be asked to complete standardized questionnaires that help us understand how you generally manage stress and cope with change (called your “baseline”) and how you perceive the current or upcoming stressor.
Brief Mental Status Examination
We then assess your emotional, cognitive, and behavioral functioning. These assessments in a mental well-being test are usually brief and target a certain aspect of your functioning. The results will help guide the next two steps.
Mental Well-being Test Choices
We use standardized tests to measure specific aspects of mental well-being, such as personality traits, emotional stability, and thought process measures. We also use some of the empirical tests in the previous section, often in abbreviated versions.
Observational Well-being Assessments
We may give you assignments to self-observe or hypothetical situations during our time together so we can see how you manage challenges and stress. We may also ask for reports from family members, friends, and others who know you well.
Our goal with a mental well-being test is to provide advice, guidance, and suggestions to help you manage a difficult situation and cope with an upcoming challenge. We can repeat the assessment later to see if those ideas and strategies worked.
Summary and Our Work
We can provide a mental wellness, stability, or well-being assessment as screening tools to determine whether additional psychological testing would be helpful. Of course, there is no obligation, and if you’d prefer other routes rather than psychological testing, we can provide alternatives. A mental wellness test costs relatively little and takes an hour or less. A mental stability test is more substantial and requires more time, but it is still less expensive than many other services. We will review the costs before we charge you anything and ensure you are comfortable with what you will receive from testing.
Contact us About Mental Wellness Test Services
We’d be happy to provide a free consultation about these two services, so if you feel a wellness, well-being, or mental stability test may be helpful to you or someone you are close to, feel free to contact us anytime.
