Pros, cons, strengths, and limitations of intellectual assessment Intelligence can have a very broad definition. Intelligence involves a very wide array of an individual including his or her receptive ability, ability to process information and how this individual responds to his or her surrounding environment. It is imperative to understand the minor aspects that entail human intelligence to carry out an effective intellectual assessment (Lycan, 1999). Intellectual assessment involves evaluating an individual level of intelligence based on the above-stated factors. One can carry out an intellectual assessment by evaluating an individual verbal, non-verbal and social behavior. The three aspects are relative across individuals and vary in strength. It is very difficult therefore to determine which individual is more intelligent than the other is. It is important to do an intellectual assessment to understand the psychological nature of an individual. Understanding the psychological nature of an individual is a key element towards prescribing how to treat a mental retard or an emotionally deprived individual. Understanding the human nature would also help tutors to determine which techniques to use to help children with learning difficulties and could help psychologist help individuals who have a problem in relating with their surrounding environment adapt easily to their environment (Stanovich, 2009) There are the dark sides of carrying out an intellectual assessment. An individual might not take it lightly when as a psychologist you carry out a test meant for a mental retard to a completely sane person. One may also get completely wrong results by using the wrong technique in an individual thus giving a wrong prescription. There are strengths as well as weaknesses of carrying out an intellectual assessment. The strengths include understanding the cognitive ability of an individual as well as the emotional state of an individual. It is also possible to understand an individual’s personality thus being very easy to deal with an individual. As a mental health-care practitioner, I must understand my patients intellectual and receptive as well as cognitive abilities. The key to understanding the stated aspects is to determine which technique to use on which individual. Mental disorders vary from one individual to another. There are mental retards that acquire this state from birth as a matter of genetic inheritance or complications at birth. One could developmental problems because of physical injury. There are also mental problems because of depression and other emotional problems. One common factor is the all these cases are to do with the brain impairment in one way or another. It is therefore not possible to administer the same kind of treatment to all though they are all mental retards (Kaplan & Saccuzzo, 2009). It is very easy to deal with a mental retard if you take the right direction on the first interaction with the retard. Since intellectual assessment involves various aspects of an individual, to strengthen any intellectual assessment of a mental retard, it is imperative to analyze individually or the aspects that involve intellectual assessment. By doing this, you identify the major problem of the individual and thus can dea