It's hard to talk about anyone High Intellectual Potential not to speak of diagnosis (in adults as in children).
Yet, as we will see here, make a diagnosis. HIP in adults is not always useful.
And besides, a lot of things we find online don't work. Be careful.
How the diagnosis goes HIP Adult?
In adults, diagnosis of HIP goes the same way as a child: with an IQ test. The only difference is the test that is passed. For adults, the WAIS Whereas for children it is more the WISC.
This IQ test must be performed in a psychologist. It all happens in 3 times:
- A preparatory meeting during which you will meet and discuss with your psychologist the reasons why you pass the high potential detection check. Indeed, according to the reasons we will not seek to see the same things through the intellectual quotient test. And so some parts of the test may vary.
- The test itself which lasts on average 1h30 to 2h
- The result of the test: it is during this third appointment that your psychologist will give you his diagnosis of HIP.
I summarized this whole process in video:
Make a diagnosis of HIP for an adult therefore takes time and is a real job. It is not possible to do this free of charge or in an automated way on the Internet.
Finally, doing it just "for fun" or "knowing its result" does not have much interest in me. It's not right or wrong to know that someone is a person. HIP. However, it is useful if this difference makes us encounter difficulties in everyday life. There, taking an IQ test is useful.
Diagnosis vs detect: is the High Intellectual Potential is a disease?
All too often, the term diagnosis of the High Intellectual Potential. However, being a person High Intellectual Potential is not a disease. It's one characteristic like another. You can be big, small, brown, blond, HIP. It's okay.
Generally, I prefer the term detection High potential. It is detected in a person (with a professional), but there is no need for a medical diagnosis.
What are the diagnostic criteria? HIP For an adult?
The High Intellectual Potential is nothing but an overpowering brain. The only scientifically valid way to diagnose/detect it is therefore with a proper IQ test.
However, some superstars in the sector (I am thinking for example of Jeanne Siaud-Facchin or Monique de Kermadec) see individuals with high potential as special characteristics that can be identified during a clinical examination.
Monique de Kermadec even offers a 17-question test to detect gifted people.
If you are interested, you can find the test in the video below:
Similarly, some other psychologists reportedly found "signs" and "evidence" that it is HIP. I often hear about 7 evidence that someone is high potential which arehypersensitivity, creativity, curiosity,extra-lucidity, the feeling of difference, perfectionism, and the need for justice.
More in this video:
These techniques may eventually give you a first clue, but I am convinced that nothing is worth the real IQ test. Take them with tweezers.
Where to take a test to diagnose her HIP ?
The only place you need to go is a psychologist who can give you an IQ test. To help you in this process, I have created a directory that brings together the recommended ones.
Discoverdirectory of psychologists specialized in the HIP
Note that these are professionals who have been recommended. I do not know them personally and cannot guarantee the quality of their work. However, if they are recommended, this is already a good first point.
Otherwise, you can always opt for the online version but see it as a game rather than a real diagnosis HIP For adults.
Be aware that I have grouped in an articlethe 9 main IQ tests to do onlinewho should have fun for a few minutes.
What is the point of diagnosing a HIP Adult?
Why do you want to diagnose your HIP ? That is a legitimate question. Indeed, knowing that we are a person with high potential with two main interests:
- Allow adaptations in learning systems. As a result, this applies when one is still in school/school. Be careful, this does not mean that a gifted person will be less successful at school. It's even the opposite: on average, HP children succeed better !
- Addressing an adult identity need. As the gap between levels grows, it narrows. One can easily find a little gifted who at the level of a CM2 while he is in the CE2. But it loses its interest between two adults aged 40 and 42. So the diagnosis HIP Instead, adult will respond to a search for his profound identity.
These are trends. You can very well be a student and ask yourself questions about yourself and your functioning without being in trouble, or being an adult and having (difficulties). Or even find yourself in a completely different situation.
I just think that paying several hundred euro to take an IQ test and get the stamp HIP just to be able to boast about it with others has little interest.
Again, to be HIP is neither good nor bad.
But I'm not your mother, it's not my job to tell you what to do.
