Your case is just a little bit similar to the 2nd situation I have mentioned before, i.e. to conduct an IQ Test in order to confirm the diagnosis of a certain child behavioral problem.
I think many parents have already known that IQ test is not only related to IQ and in fact, there are some child behavioral problems which are closely related to IQ and an IQ test may help to confirm the diagnosis.
However, it is also the Ugly True that in fact there are in most cases not necessary to conduct an IQ test when handling child behavioral problems, including your daughter's case. The reason is that an IQ test may only help in some cases to confirm the diagnosis, of which there are no practical uses, except for academic interests. On the other hand, the treatment or therapy applied for child behavioral problems will make no difference no matter the problem child is gifted or not. It means that it is not necessary to confirm your child's IQ or giftness in treating the behavioral problem.
Since the cost involved in conducting an IQ test is quite significant, a decent and good CP (i.e. non commercial one) will only recommend taking an IQ test for the child with behavioral problems when there is a necessary and practical need. For examples:
1. If the child's problem is suspected due to low IQ and then a formal IQ test report is required for referring to other supporting organizations
2. A formal and official full diagnosis report is requested by the child's school or any organization for reference in explaining the child's behavior
3. For some child behavioral problems, the confirmation of the diagnosis is very important when medication is one of the effective ways to treat the problem, e.g. ADHD. In such cases, some CPs would like to play safe to confirm the diagnosis first before recommending the child to seek for further diagnosis by a psychiatrist who may prescrible medication to treat the problem.
I know a case that a kid was reported to have behavioral problems at school and his parents called for a private CP's help. The parents already suspected their child being gifted and also suspected their child's problem might be caused by his giftness. Therefore they asked the CP's advice and also requested the CP to conduct an IQ test. The CP had conducted some assessments and agreed that the child had some emotional problems. However, the CP didn't recommend any IQ test because there was no such need as the results of the IQ test would have no use on the treatment. The CP had suggested some EQ and behavioral treatments as well as some practical advices. The kid was under closely monitored for two years and had shown significant improvements. Two years later, the kid's school teacher suspected the kid suffered from ADHD and requested the parents to have a formal diagnosis by a CP. The parents then consulted the CP again and the CP said the kid didn't seem to be suffered from ADHD but however as the school requested a formal diagnosis report, the CP requested the kid to conduct a formal IQ test in order to write a formal professional full diagnosis report. The IQ test result confirmed the CP's preliminary assessment that the kid is just highly gifted that caused him having some behaviors a little bit similar to an ADHD child but that kid is definitely not ADHD.
Regarding the IQ test report, no matter the new verison or the old version, it is true that the assessment or measurement covered a wide range of different aspects in order to cover various spectrum related to intelligence - i.e. what you called a whole profolio. However, those detailed spectrum or analysis are in fact only for academic interests and no practical uses. They cannot tell you how to better nurture your child. A caring parent will have already known their kid (i.e. the characteristics, temperance, strengths and weaknesses, etc.) much better than what the IQ report told. This is also exactly the reason that a good CP with professional ethics will not easily recommend any child to conduct the IQ test unless there is a necessary pratical need.
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原帖由 chloecadence 於 10-7-31 04:18 發表 
Most people think IQ testonly relates to IQ, but actually there is more. My girl does not haveany focus or AHDH problem. She used to be the most noisy, active andsocial one in the group, but she becomes very passive and quiet to alevel that worry me. So we met up with a CP, and discuss myconcerns. He suggested us to take the IQ test after a detailedquestionnaire and discussion....so we did.
The result provides us a different angle to look into the issue. Itprovide us some hints of the changes. I also suggest my friend to takethe test because her daughter has some behaviour problem. We mayunderstand our daughter some, but I don't have the guts to say Iunderstand her all. We both think the result are accurate, and itexplains. So to us, it is not the mark, but the whole profolio. Notbecause of 虛榮, just because we want to understand more.
I did not submit the result to "enrich" her profolio, and actually there are not much support and course for gifted children.
I do agree some organization is very commercial, so you may need tochoose carefully. The format is changed for the new version, so it isnot really apple to apple.
