Court-Ordered Evaluations

Serenity Counseling & Resource Center, Inc. conducts Anger Management Evaluations. An Anger Management Evaluation is a highly-inclusive specialized evaluation used to assess an individual’s level of aggression, impulse control, risk and safety factors, and self-control. An Anger Management Evaluation is often requested by courts, employers, schools, and other entities for individuals to complete as a part of an administrative procedure or various decision-making factors. An Anger Management Evaluation may be beneficial in determining an individual’s ability to manage anger, identify and control triggers, and learn and apply anger management and conflict resolution strategies.

Serenity Counseling & Resource Center, Inc. conducts Child Custody Evaluations with a commitment to provide clinically competent and impartial opinions for child custody matters. A Child Custody Evaluation is a specialized in-depth family-focused evaluation that assesses a broad range of factors with a focus on identifying the best interest of the child. A Child Custody Evaluation may be beneficial when parents encounter differences of opinions determining child custody arrangments or have disputes in decision-making, caretaking, and other factors pertaining to a child.

Serenity Counseling & Resource Center, Inc. considers all factors with a high degree of integrity and fairness when making recommendations to a court about a child custody arrangement/parenting plan.

Serenity Counseling & Resource Center, Inc. conducts court-ordered Domestic Violence Evaluations. A Domestic Violence Evaluation is a specialized and highly-emotional involved assessment that analyzes a wide spectrum of domestic-related factors, requiring the expertise of a trained clinician to conduct such evaluation.  Screening tools, therapeutic strategies, clinical questionnaires, and evidenced-based practices are implemented to assess the risk, safety, severity, and frequency of domestic violence factors.  Clinical findings from a Domestic Violence Evaluation are formulated to present an individual’s behavioral health aspects, clinical recommendations, family structure/dynamics, and pertinent support systems, treatment, and resources needed.

Serenity Counseling & Resource Center, Inc. conducts Juvenile Placement Evaluations. A Juvenile Placement Evaluation is a comprehensive clinical approach to assess a juvenile’s risk and safety factors, clinical treatment needs, support system, and placement recommendation (home, residential setting, etc.). A Juvenile Placement Evaluation may be beneficial to consider when the least restrictive environment (community setting) is recommended for a juvenile instead of a detention center or when the juvenile transitions from a detention center to the community. While a Juvenile Placement Evaluation may provide a clinical basis to support various community-based service recommendations and a placement level of care for a juvenile, legal determining factors rest with the juvenile court system and treatment provisions rest with the entity/insurance carrier that reviews service requests associated with the juvenile.

Serenity Counseling & Resource Center, Inc. has experience conducting court-ordered and non-courted Sex Offender Specific Evaluations. A sex offender specific evaluation is a specialized and highly-complex evaluation, requiring in-depth clinical training to competently analyze multiple psychosexual factors/triggers, identify risk and safety measures, assess placement and supervision needs, and determine clinical recommendations. A licensed clinician with a specialty certification as a Clinically Certified Sex Offender Specialist will conduct the Sex Offender Specific Evaluation.