Psych Eval

Update: We found a new LP and we have an appointment with him on Dec. 8th. He is meeting us for one session and will write the report. The entire ordeal is going to cost us $150. We are happy.

As part of our dossier (application to the Philippines) we have to include a psychological evaluation from a licensed psychologist (lp). Our agency said it is just one trip to a lp and then they write up a simple two page report. They even gave a name of person they have sent families to before and he charges $150. I decided to find someone that took our insurance and was closer to us. I found someone 5 miles from our house and she was even available on nights and Saturdays and our insurance accepted her, great right? We were very excited because she had just finished a psych eval for another couple adopting from the Philippines, great again right? Then at the end of the session she had us book our next 3 visits, hum is this right? Well we thought, that is okay she just wants to get to know us and insurance pays for it. Then we had to take a pencil/paper test (I'll address this later) at another appointment time. When Ryan went to take the test, she mentioned to him that it would cost several hundreds of dollars for our report to be written...WHAT?? When he came home and told me that I called our agency and tried to find more information. I also belong to a Yahoo group of other people adopting from the Philippines and I asked them. Everything came back with no, it's only two pages and shouldn't cost hundreds of dollars. One nice woman even sent me a sample of what it was supposed to look like, something she got from her agency.

So today we went for our next appointment and asked her how much money, she couldn't give us an answer. She told us that it is very labor intensive and it would take a while to write and the last one she did was accepted with no problems. Yes, if you give someone too much information they will say you did a good job, we just don't want to waste the money on something we don't need. We showed her our papers and she showed us hers and we came to the conclusion that we could not agree. We told her nice to meet you, but we need to go somewhere else.

She also gave our test results today, should I post those on the World Wide Web? Oh well, I'm not afraid of who sees them. They came back invalid because we were trying too hard on the test. Let me tell you about the test. It was over 500 statements and you get to choose true or false. Some were easy...I like to kill small animals or something like that. Of course false. Others were very gray, how do I interpret that statement. Anyway we over analyzed it and failed. Sorry, English teacher here, I look at every word and think about it and all of the ways it could be interpreted. So we don't know what we are going to do now. I am going to call the other person on Monday and see if he can fix the whole mess.