[Psychological testing within the scope of social psychiatric service]

As a psychologist working within the Social Psychiatric Service I find myself exposed to certain assignments and methodological expectations. One of the most common images is that of a "trick- and test specialist" that most of the time would appear along with multitude of open and hidden fantasies towards psychological methods of testing. It's not always easy to meet such expectations appropriately. But due to the severe consequences that may arise from statements of the Service we have to emphasise the limitations of such means of assistance. The mathematical operations of test constructors may be extraordinarily brilliant; the possibilities of transforming psychic phenomena into abstract numbers create however, as many complications as the choice of social scales and standards we have to make for our measurements. Hence, psychological results will still have to follow several different steps of examination that are reciprocally related to each other, even when using methods that seem to provide more comfortable, easier solutions.