When I began conducting psychological evaluations more than 17 years ago, I thought a lot about answers. What is the diagnosis? What do the scores mean? Where are the strengths? Where are the weaknesses? What recommendations will help? Those questions still matter. They matter a great deal.

When a child argues about every instruction, refuses to start homework, procrastinates until the last possible minute, shuts down, or completely falls apart over something that seems small, it can be hard not to focus on the behavior.