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What is the primary goal of psychological assessment?

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Psychological assessment is the attempt of a skilled mental health professional to use techniques and psychological tools to learn specific and/or general facts about an individual in order to inform others about how they currently function and/or to predict the individual's behavior and functioning in the future. ...

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