Road Traffic Accident (RTA) Psychological Assessments

FCC Psych-Experts uses RTA psychological assessments to evaluate the severity and validity of several psychological or psychiatric illnesses that may arise after RTA. These include:

• Anxiety;
• Depression;
• Phobias;
• Sleep disturbance;
• Post-traumatic stress disorder;
• Personality disorder; and
• Psychosis.

Our Experts provide reports for the court and solicitors representing claimants and defendants. FCC Psych-Experts provide Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and other RTA therapeutic techniques. Our Experts deliver both face-to-face RTA psychological tests and RTA assessments online of the emotional shock after a car accident. 

Levels of Mental Trauma after RTA

1. Psychological Trauma: This is psychological trauma, which can be described as having no long-term adverse effect on the individual's life. 
2. Psychological Trauma: This is a psychological trauma  following a car accident where the prognosis is reasonably favourable, and the effect of the RTA on the individual's life can be described as moderate.
3. Psychological Trauma : The victim of the RTA has suffered mental injuries that will result in enduring mental dysfunction to the person's personality and/or life ― these psychiatric injuries are likely to be classified as moderately severe psychological trauma. It is important to note that this trauma may be treatable, but may still leave long-term psychiatric injury.
4. Psychological Trauma: The level of psychiatric injury  is deemed to have an impact on the client's  private and work life. The mental trauma is considered to be impossible or extremely difficult to eliminate even with extensive long-term psychological therapy.
5. Psychological Trauma:  This is where the emotional shock after the car accident is diagnosed as PTSD.

Parenting Assessments

Our Parenting Assessments include the following areas:

1. Assessments of ability parenting capacity including assessment of intellectual functioning and the impact of this on caring
2. Ability of a partner to protect children from a violent, sexually abusive or emotionally abusive person
3. Whole family assessments in order to establish the dynamics of a family, for example, in the context of disputes or where a child is demonstrating behavioural difficulties
4. Family risk assessment of physical and emotional abuse, domestic violence and partners' ability to protect
5. Substance abuse and dependence in a family context
6. Effect of substance misuse and dependence upon parenting abilities
7. Psychological effects of matrimonial /relationship breakdown and abusive relationships
8. Risk Assessments with respect to physical or emotional abuse
9. Therapeutic needs of parents, timescales and prospect of change
10. Attachment relationships of children to their parents or carers
11. Assessment of harm or likelihood of harm suffered by children with respect to known or suspected neglect and/or physical,  & emotional abuse
12. Therapeutic needs of children following a care order
13. Impact of abuse
14. Assessment of drugs and alcohol on ability to parent
15. Assessments of the ability to protect children from unsuitable partners and grandparents
16. Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) or brainwashing of a child by one parent to denigrate the other parent
17. Learning disability and its impact on parenting