Psycho-vocational Evaluation
Serves
to identify the client’s personal and vocational characteristics, by
evaluating the person’s general learning ability (intelligence),
academic achievement levels (reading, spelling, arithmetic),
emotional status and vocationally related aptitudes, interests,
pragmatic transferable skills and personality characteristics. A
psychological diagnosis is typically derived so that psychologically
based occupational activity limitations/restrictions may be
determined. Current vocational aptitudes status is considered
relative to the individual’s prior occupational history. This step
serves to determine the most appropriate basis for the occupational
search. The assessment addresses the following primary questions:
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What are this individual’s personal and vocational characteristics, in terms of vocationally related interests, aptitudes, and temperaments?
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At what level is this individual functioning in terms of reading, spelling and arithmetic?
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What is the individual’s general learning ability, through what means does she/he best learn?
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What is this person’s emotional status, and what if any accident related or other emotional pathology may present as barriers to rehabilitation?
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Is the individual’s current aptitude (and other) profile consistent with that of previously held occupations? If not, why does the discrepancy exist? Is the current or past aptitude profile more reliable as a basis for determining transferable skills?
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From what form of training would this individual be most capable of benefiting?
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Would academic upgrading be required prior to pursuing formal retraining or preceding immediate
entry into certain types of occupations? -
What broad occupational areas are most appropriate for this individual given his/her overall personal and vocational characteristics?
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From the psycho-vocational viewpoint, what is the individual’s prognosis for workplace re-entry in the
near and far term? -
Also addresses Post 104 disability and Residual Earning Capacity Status
