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It depends on the type of information that a disability examiner or administrative law judge is seeking to obtain. If you are applying for social security disability or ssi disability and there is an indication on your application for benefits that you have depression, you may be sent to an MSE, or mental status exam. This may be the case even if you do not allege this condition as the basis for your disability. In fact, it is very frequently the case that social security disability or ssi claimants will be sent to an MSE simply because their family doctor made one single mention of anxiety or depression somewhere in their treatment notes. In all cases, a disability examiner (much more so than a disability judge) will be required to investigate the "potential" for a claim based on a mental impairment if any indication--even the slightest indication--of such a mental impairment exists. Disability claimants may also be sent to full psychiatric evaluations conducted by a psychiatrist. Or, if there is an indication of memory problems (which may require the use of a WMS, or Wechsler memory scale), borderline low intellectual functioning, or a premorbid decline in IQ (which may be due to organic brain syndrome or head trauma) a disability claimant may be sent to a full psychological evaluation, such as a WAIS, or wechsler adult intelligence scale. 
What types of mental testing or mental evaluations are child applicants for disability subject to be sent to? Children requiring an evaluation are often sent to the following types of exams when the need directs:
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