Alberta Mental Health Assessment Centre
We provide full range of clinical and psychological assessments for children, adolescents, and adults. We strive for excellence in practice and to serve our local community towards a brighter future.
About Us
Alberta Mental Health Assessment Centre (AMHA) provides full range of psychological assessments including, but not limited to Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder, and Psychoeducational assessments. We serve all age ranges including children, adolescents, and adults. We are located in Edmonton, AB, but strive to serve all communities through telepsychology.
You can contact us directly for an appointment. However, we also accept referrals from other agencies including physicians, mental health professionals, allied professions, lawyers, churches, schools, and other agencies.
Finances can be difficult to navigate. Our services are covered in whole or in part by a wide variety of insurance programs, government agencies, employers, and other agencies. We will assist you in finding suitable coverage.
Assessments
Autism Spectrum Disorder
An assessment for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a complex process that involves the evaluation of multiple domains of functioning and behaviour. ASD presents quite differently among different people and shares similar behaviours with other disorders including social anxiety disorder, ADHD, OCD, and social communication disorder. Therefore, an individual can easily be given an incorrect diagnosis. At AMHA, we adhere to the best practices to screen for a wide variety of disorders to ensure we have the correct answer.
For a child, adolescent, or a young adult, the assessment process typically includes an intake interview, administration of multiple assessments (includes ADOS-2 and ADI-R among others), multiple clinical interviews, thorough reviews of all previous assessments and school records, and administration of standardized questionnaires. A follow up meeting to share results and provide the final report will be arranged.
Attention Deficit Disorder
An assessment for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) involves the evaluation of an individual’s cognitive abilities, executive functioning, behavioural difficulties, and symptoms of hyperactivity, impulsivity, and inattention. Symptoms seen in ADHD can be mimicked by many neurodevelopmental and other mental health disorders. Therefore, a thorough assessment will be conducted to investigate other possibilities when assessing for ADHD.
For a child, adolescent, or a young adult, the assessment process typically includes an intake interview, administration of multiple assessments, multiple clinical interviews, thorough review of all previous assessments and school records, and administration of standardized questionnaires. A follow up meeting to share results and provide the final report will be arranged.
Psycho-education
Psychoeducational assessments address any concerns regarding your or your child's learning and academic progress. A comprehensive assessment provides a better understanding of your or your child's cognitive and academic strengths and weaknesses.
The assessment process typically includes an intake interview, administration of standardized measures (including measures of intelligence and academic abilities among others), and a thorough review of all previous assessments and school records. A follow up meeting to share results and provide the final report will be arranged.
Our Team
Shiva Mortazavi-Moghaddam, MSc RPsych
Registered Psychologist
Shiva is a Registered Psychologist with over 20 years of experience in counselling and assessments. She brings with herself a wealth of knowledge, expertise, and experience from her life as a medical doctor where she provided mental health assessments along with appropriate treatment to her patients. Over the years, she has decided to expand her career within the field of psychology.
Shiva is passionate about conducting assessments, including ADHD, psychoeducational and autism assessments. She also has extensive experience with mental health assessments, custody and access, phobias, critical incident or trauma, employee-assistance programs, and career and occupational assessments.
She also has special interest in working with children, youth, adults, couples and families experiencing mental health issues and challenges including trauma, chronic pain, PTSD, relationship and family conflicts, substance use, ADHD, immigration issues, depression, anxiety, women’s issues, and self-esteem concerns.
In addition to assessments, Shiva is registered with NIHB and WCB and provides treatment services to her clients as well.
Mohammad Askari, MSc
Provisional Psychologist
Mohammad is a provisionally-registered psychologist with over 20 years of experience in the mental health field as a dedicated rural physician and has treated many patients in all age ranges. He has treated patients with both psychological and psychiatric conditions. Throughout his life, he has continuously been at the forefront of mental health treatment methodologies and has concentrated his practice on treatment.
Mohammad has special interest in mental health assessments and his practice is sub-specialized on ADHD assessment and treatment for all age ranges.
Location
We are based in Edmonton, AB