Important Psychological Assessment
Tests for Cognitive Functions
1. Bender Gestalt Test
2. Wechsler Memory Scale
3. PGI Memory Scale
4. Wilcoxon Card Sorting Test
5. Bhatia’s Battery of Performance Tests of Intelligence
6. Binet’s Test of Intelligence (locally standardized)
7. Raven’s Progressive Matrices (all versions)
8. Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – Indian Adaptation (WAPIS – Ramalingaswamy’s)
9. WAIS-R
Tests for Diagnostic Clarification
1. Rorschach Psychodiagnostics
2. Color Form Sorting Test
3. Object Sorting Test
4. Proverbs Test
5. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
6. Multiphasic Questionnaire
7. Clinical Analysis Questionnaire
8. International Personality Disorder Examination (IPDE)
9. General Health Questionnaire (GHQ)
10. Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)
Tests for Adjustment and Personality Assessment
1. 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 PF)
2. NEO-5 Personality Inventory
3. Temperament and Character Inventory
4. Eysenck’s Personality Inventory
5. Eysenck’s Personality Questionnaire
6. Self-Concept and Self-Esteem Scales
7. Rotter’s Locus of Control Scale
8. Bell’s Adjustment Inventory (Students’ and Adults’)
9. Subjective Well-Being Questionnaires
10. Quality of Life (QOL) Questionnaires
B) Projective Tests
1. Sentence Completion Test
2. Picture Frustration Test
3. Draw-A-Person Test
4. Thematic Apperception Test (Murray’s and Uma Chowdhary’s versions)
Rating Scales (Self-Rated and Observer-Rated)
1. Leyton’s Obsessional Inventory
2. Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS)
3. Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
4. State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)
5. Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)
6. Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HARS)
7. Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS)
8. Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms (SAPS)
9. Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS)
10. Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS)
Psychological Assessment of Children
1. Developmental Psychopathology Checklist
2. Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)
3. Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale for Children
4. Coloured Raven’s Progressive Matrices (C-RPM)
5. Malin’s Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)
6. Gesell’s Developmental Schedule
7. Illingworth’s Developmental Schedule
8. Vineland Social Maturity Scale
9. AMD Adaptation Scale for Mental Retardation
10. BASIC-MR (Behavior Assessment Scale for Indian Children with Mental Retardation)
11. Developmental Screening Test (Bharatraj’s)
12. Tests of Scholastic Abilities (Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Visuo-Motor Integration)
13. Raven’s Controlled Projection Test
14. Draw-A-Person Test (Children’s Version)
15. Children’s Apperception Test
Clinical Rating Scales for Children:
1. Autism Rating Scales
2. ADHD Rating Scales
Tests for People with Disabilities
1. WAIS-R (for Visual Handicapped)
2. WISC-R (for Visual Handicapped)
3. Blind Learning Aptitude Test
4. Interest and Aptitude Tests (specific versions)
5. Kauffman’s Assessment Battery
Neuropsychological Assessment
1. Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery (LNNB)
2. Halstead-Reitan Battery
3. PGI Battery of Brain Dysfunction (PGI-BBD)
4. NIMHANS Neuropsychological Battery
5. Other Standard Neuropsychological Tests
Core Tests (Do these for sure!)
1. Stanford-Binet’s Test of Intelligence (any vernacular version)
2. Bhatia’s Battery of Intelligence Tests
3. Wechsler Adult Performance Intelligence Scale
4. Malin’s Intelligence Scale for Children
5. Gesell’s Developmental Schedule
6. Wechsler Memory Scale
7. PGI Memory Scale
8. 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire
9. NEO-5 Personality Inventory
10. Temperament and Character Inventory
11. Children’s Personality Questionnaire
12. Clinical Analysis Questionnaire
13. Multiphasic Questionnaire
14. Object Sorting/Classification Test
15. Sentence Completion Test
16. Thematic Apperception Test
17. Children’s Apperception Test
18. Rorschach Psychodiagnostics
19. Raven’s Progressive Matrices (all forms)
20. Neuropsychological Battery of Tests (any standard version)
•NIMHANS Neuropsychological Battery
•Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery (LNNB)
•Other Standard Neuropsychological Tests
