ADHD
As NZ-leading clinical experts in the assessment and treatments of autism and ADHD, we offer gold-standard treatment in this area. Our aim is to provide a holistic and individualistic approach to assessment. We have a multidisciplinary team of psychologists, working across multiple scopes, and a paediatrician involved in the assessment process. Our team can formally diagnose for ADHD.
We pride ourselves on offering a high standard of care: whether this is seeing a psychologist or therapist for neuro-affirming therapy, medication review, or speech and language therapy involvement. Our paediatrician Dr Danny Stewart can offer medication review (if required) for children and teens up to 17 years of age. For older teens and adults, we work closely with our local psychiatrists to refer clients on for aftercare.
We have extensive experience diagnosing girls and women with ADHD and will ask some additional questions during our developmental interview and assessment to ensure that we are capturing the difference in presentation for girls and women with ADHD. It is well known that girls and women are excellent at masking difficulties associated with ADHD and may be diagnosed later in life due to masking.
If you are unsure whether an assessment is right for you, please feel free to contact us for a chat and we will gladly guide you.
Depending on age and other factors, your child might see our paediatrician or one of our psychologists for the assessment. We are currently only offering this service for children aged 5 to 17 years.
Below is a breakdown of the process:
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Screening questionnaires: For ADHD and other behaviours (parents, teacher, and child if suitable). Teacher needs to complete a school form, and parents need to complete a detailed developmental history form. All these forms need to be completed prior to the in-person session.
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Initial assessment: Psychologist/Paediatrician will meet with the child and parents to discuss current concerns and go through developmental, family, education, social, and behavioural history.
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Clinical interview: Interview with parents (60-90 minutes).
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Child clinical interview: Observation and specialist neuropsychological assessments (Visual and Auditory Attention and Response Control computerised test).
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School liaison.
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Feedback session to discuss the results.
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Report writing.
It would also be helpful for us to have access to past educational (e.g., end of term reports) and medical reports to aid in the assessment process.
Cost: $1600**All prices are inclusive of GST.
Additional costs:
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School observation: This will be discussed with you beforehand if we require further information.
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Medication review: See fee section under Specialist Paediatrician Services for follow-up session costs.
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The psychologist will meet with you and your parent(s)/caregiver (if possible). The reason for involving a parent is that there needs to be evidence of ADHD traits in childhood (prior to age 12). We understand that it might not always be possible to have parent involvement. If this is the case, please let us know and we can think of another source of information (e.g., sibling, partner). This assessment can be partly completed online but one of the sessions needs to be completed in-person.
Below is a breakdown of the process:
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Screening questionnaires: ADHD, mood disorders, and developmental history form prior to the in-person session.
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Initial assessment: During this session, we will discuss your current concerns and go through developmental, family, social, educational, and work history. It would also be helpful if your parent or someone else who knows you well (e.g., friend, partner) attends the session. If at this stage we think that another condition might explain your current concerns better than ADHD, we will discuss this with you at this point. If this is the case, we will only charge for the cost of the initial assessment ($330) and stop the assessment at this stage.
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Clinical interview and observation: Over 1-2 sessions (up to 2 hours). The assessment includes using a semi-structured interview protocol to cover ADHD symptoms in detail. In some cases, we might ask you to complete a computerised test of attention and focus.
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Information from whānau: The psychologist will follow up with a telephone or online session with your parent(s)/caregiver (if required).
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Feedback session to discuss the results.
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Report writing.
We would appreciate access to any past medical or educational reports (e.g., end of term school reports). This is not always necessary, but may be required if we do not have sufficient information from a parental interview, developmental background, etc.
Cost: $1600*
* All prices are inclusive of GST. For more complex cases, we may need to charge extra (based on our hourly rate of $210, incl. GST).
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