Bilingual Psychological Assessment

Center for Psychological Services has professional staff, fluent in a number of languages including Spanish, Bulgarian, Russian, and Hebrew. When a person is in need of a psychological evaluation it is usually best to administer it in their native tongue. The advantage of utilizing a bi-lingual psychologist over an interpreter is that the validity of tests can be maintained. This is especially important in measures of cognitive ability, academic achievement, and emotional functioning.

Bilingual Psychotherapy

A person can often express him or herself better in the language that they were raised in. The language of emotion is often that of one’s native tongue. Even persons fluent in English may have difficulty expressing their full range of emotions. As such, affording a person the opportunity to have psychotherapy in their own language, as well as in English, can result in a better outcome. This may be especially true when one partner in a marriage is foreign-born. Language and cultural differences may play a part in their discord.