What we do at United Psychological Services

The goal of United Psychological Services is to provide that multi-faceted treatment offering neuropsychological and psychological evaluation, the best sleep analysis, and a network of professionals dedicated to the art of accuracy. We care enough to pursue an accurate diagnosis and do not rest until this has occurred and the treatment plan is operational.

The Benefits of Accurate Diagnosis:

• We avoid the problem of ADD being a bin to place anyone who is overly active, defiant, and noncompliant in the home or school setting.
• We separate diagnoses of Autism, Autism Spectrum, sleep problems or brain injury from a genetic attention problem.
• We avoid missing a problem that only promises to be more problematic in the future.
• We realize the difference between a genetic attention problem and an acquired attention problem resulting from injury to the brain.
• We separate emotional disorders of Bipolar, ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder) from disorders involving the brain.
• We avoid the mistake of diagnosing a psychological disorder such as Bipolar or ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder) when symptoms are the result of an undiagnosed physical disorder.
• We understand how to treat by knowing what we are treating thus practically guaranteeing success.

Professionals work together as allied disciplines to diagnose brain disorders beyond that of a genetic attention problem:

Accurate neuropsychological assessment has the power to identify cognitive deficits associated with the frontal processes, the memory processes, and to rule out or rule in a genetic attention disorder versus an acquired attention disorder versus language problems. Standard radiological procedures (EEG, PET, MRI, CT scan) and specialized versions of these procedures, provide confirmation. The neurologist provides clinically seen confirmation of the radiological tests. Sleep medicine rules out sleep disorders as causal factors. Dentistry identifies the airway issues. The behavioral sleep specialist separates out the psychological ramifications of the sleep disorder on the person’s daily life.

The diagnosis is multifaceted based upon contributions from various professional disciplines working together to provide a scientifically based and accurate diagnostic assessment. The patient benefits, so does their family as well as those in the surrounding work or school environment.