Does it ask all of the necessary questions to determine what the client’s presenting problem is?
The Mental Health Intake Form (See Appendix) asks all of the pertinent information to determine the client’s presenting problem. The first page has a question concerning the purpose the client is seeking treatment. The first page also requests that the client list what their treatment goals are, check off their current symptoms and complete a suicide risk assessment. The symptoms checklist has 22 selections to choose with an additional two blank lines where the client can list another symptom. The checklist contains items such as depressed mood, excessive energy, and hallucinations. The suicide risk assessment has 14 questions to gauge if the …show more content…
The statement makes the task of filling out seven pages seem less daunting. All of the questions are necessary for an accurate assessment. Clients can skip over the questions that are not applicable. For instance, the first question of the Suicide Risk Assessment asks if the client has ever had feelings or thoughts about not wanting to live. If the client checks no, the next sentence asks them to skip that portion of the questionnaire. Several of the other questions are regarding psychiatric history, medications, dosage side effects, family health history questions, family background, childhood history, physical health and substance use, questions regarding trauma history, educational history, occupational history, relationship history, spiritual life and a large section at the end where the client can write in any additional information they would like to …show more content…
Nothing needs to be added to the questionnaire. The intake form includes numerous options to questions so that it is not alienating a population. Such as the question regarding sexual orientation gives the options of; straight/heterosexual, lesbian/gay/homosexual, bisexual, transsexual, unsure/questioning, asexual, other and prefer not to answer. The section on Spiritual Life asks if the client belongs to a particular religion or spiritual group. It also asks if that being involved while in treatment assists the client or creates a stressful environment. I found all of the questions to be necessary information that will assist during the intake and assessment of the
The Mental Health Intake Form (See Appendix) asks all of the pertinent information to determine the client’s presenting problem. The first page has a question concerning the purpose the client is seeking treatment. The first page also requests that the client list what their treatment goals are, check off their current symptoms and complete a suicide risk assessment. The symptoms checklist has 22 selections to choose with an additional two blank lines where the client can list another symptom. The checklist contains items such as depressed mood, excessive energy, and hallucinations. The suicide risk assessment has 14 questions to gauge if the …show more content…
The statement makes the task of filling out seven pages seem less daunting. All of the questions are necessary for an accurate assessment. Clients can skip over the questions that are not applicable. For instance, the first question of the Suicide Risk Assessment asks if the client has ever had feelings or thoughts about not wanting to live. If the client checks no, the next sentence asks them to skip that portion of the questionnaire. Several of the other questions are regarding psychiatric history, medications, dosage side effects, family health history questions, family background, childhood history, physical health and substance use, questions regarding trauma history, educational history, occupational history, relationship history, spiritual life and a large section at the end where the client can write in any additional information they would like to …show more content…
Nothing needs to be added to the questionnaire. The intake form includes numerous options to questions so that it is not alienating a population. Such as the question regarding sexual orientation gives the options of; straight/heterosexual, lesbian/gay/homosexual, bisexual, transsexual, unsure/questioning, asexual, other and prefer not to answer. The section on Spiritual Life asks if the client belongs to a particular religion or spiritual group. It also asks if that being involved while in treatment assists the client or creates a stressful environment. I found all of the questions to be necessary information that will assist during the intake and assessment of the