When possible, Saint Luke Institute offers candidate assessments for men or women being considered by seminaries or religious communities. We conduct the assessment on an outpatient basis over a two-day period and give feedback orally to the candidate and the contact person at the end of the assessment. Within two weeks the results are summarize in a letter and sent to the candidate and the appropriate person from the seminary or religious community.

The testing may include self-report tests (Minnesota Multiphasic Inventory-2, Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory III and NEO PI-R) and projective tests (Rorschach Inkblot Test and the Draw-a-Person Test). The Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence gives an estimate of the candidate’s intelligence.

The interview process attends to the candidate’s background history, mental status, mental health history and spiritual life.