Assessment Services
Our assessment service aims to help formands and formators make informed decisions and facilitate psychospiritual formation. With the understanding that commitment to religious life entails different needs across stages, our assessment batteries are tailor-fit to each stage of formation.
All assessment batteries include a comprehensive one-on-one interview with our assessment psychologist to supplement the information gleaned from the assessment tests. We remain committed to attending and accompanying both the formands and the formators throughout the assessment process.
We provide three different batteries according to the different levels of formation.
Candidacy Assessment
Our assessment battery for individuals in candidacy allows insight into the individual’s cognitive, social, and internal movements.
It is essential for formators to have an initial understanding of the inner world of their candidates. Such information allows formators to make informed decisions about discerning the commitment to religious life, determining appropriate formation programs, and holding conversations with candidates.
Selected intelligence tests allow for insight to an individual’s capacity to learn, to problem solve, and to be flexible in thinking of solutions to various situations and contexts.
Our assessment enables a deeper understanding of an individual’s capacity to form:
- Relationships
- Their adaptability to unique environments.
- Vulnerability and capacity to tolerate distress.
- Their level of perseverance and discipline when undertaking and completing tasks.
- Their curiosity to learn new knowledge.
Our religious assessment questionnaires and in-depth interviews are designed to understand:
- The individual’s level of insight and reflection with religious life.
- Their reflections on their own and their family histories.
- The individual’s comfort level in discussing and exploring their sexual selves.
Formative Assessment
This assessment battery is suited for individuals that are considered for ordination, and for individuals experiencing issues in their community living and assignments.
Like the candidacy battery, the formative cognitive battery determines the individual’s capacity for learning, insight, problem solving, and flexibility in Thinking.
Our formative battery also provides crucial information about an individual’s mental health and deep-seated personality patterns that may render difficulties in their capacity to cooperate with formation processes.
The assessment battery likewise enables a deeper understanding of an individual’s capacity to form relationships:
- Their adaptability to unique environments
- Vulnerability and capacity to tolerate distress
- Their level of perseverance and discipline when undertaking and completing tasks
- Their curiosity to learn new knowledge.
Our questionnaires are designed to understand:
- The individual’s level of insight and reflection with religious life.
- Their discernment process, their relationship with God.
- Their reflections on family.
- Their comfort in exploring and talking about their sexual selves, and a deeper understanding and exploration of their sexual histories.
Clinical Assessment
This battery is for individuals who have serious difficulties adjusting to community and religious life, for those who have been involved in serious situations involving the community or ministries, and for vulnerable individuals. Referrals to psychiatric, medical, and neurological professionals can also be made.
Our comprehensive assessment helps key stakeholders and decision-makers in providing evidence-based information about the individual’s overall well-being. It allows for insight into the
- Individual’s full intellectual functioning
- Possible psychopathological traits
- Sexual development, and possible addictions
Such information can be used to help identify possible clinical conditions and in-depth issues.
Our Assessment Associates
Janine Michelle O. Sy
Licensed Psychologist and Psychometrician, Philippine Regulatory Board
MA Counseling Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
BS Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
Janine Michelle O. Sy
Licensed Psychologist and Psychometrician, Philippine Regulatory Board
MA Counseling Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
BS Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
Janine is a licensed psychologist and college lecturer. Her experience ranges from guiding young adults in the classroom, to helping laity understand themselves in various stages of development through assessments.
As an educator-psychologist, Janine understands the importance of guided formative experiences in helping people improve. She places importance on understanding oneself through acknowledging one’s strengths and shadows. The commitment of the religious vocation mandates a continuous formative experience for our brothers and sisters in the vocation.
Our work in assessment allows a comprehensive and evidence-based picture of an individual. Our assessment service recognizes individual strengths and pain points, while also offering insights for support and accompaniment. Each assessment battery is tailor-fitted to the needs of the individual, highlighting experiences and formation recommendations to further the person’s growth.
We remain committed to supporting the individual and the institution in helping our religious brothers and sisters in furthering their development.
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