The sign-up process…Betterhelp Gil Margolin…
From there, you’ll be asked a series of questions in an intake survey about your gender identity, age, sexual orientation, and relationship status. In detailing your sexual orientation, you are offered the choices of straight, gay, lesbian, bi/pan, “Choose not to say”, “Questioning”, queer, nonsexual, “I don’t understand”, and “Other”.
Interestingly enough, users will discover listed below this concern in the form a highlighted truth: “Therapists on the platform have diverse backgrounds. You’ll have the ability to ask for a Christian therapist if needed”. Throughout the intake questionnaire, if you address that your religious beliefs is Christian, you will be asked “Would you like to be matched with a Christian-based therapist?”
If you address that you identify with a different faith, you will not get asked if you want to match with a therapist of that faith. I tried addressing this concern three times, each time saying I was from a different religious beliefs, and never ever got that same follow-up.
After the concerns about your identity and religious association, you will be asked to finish questions about your mental health history, such as whether you have ever been in therapy prior to and what led you to therapy today. Choices for what led you to therapy consist of “I have actually been feeling depressed”, “My state of mind is hindering my job/school efficiency”, “I am mourning”, and 10 other choices. Then, you will be asked what your expectations are from your therapist, such as a therapist who listens, explores your past, teaches your new skills, designates you research, and more.
The platform will ask you to rank your present physical health and eating practices from good, reasonable, and bad.
Then, it will ask you if you are experiencing frustrating unhappiness or anxiety. Following this, there will be a few concerns from the Client Health Questionnaire, or the PHQ-9, an assessment used to evaluate for depression.
If you are presently employed as well as how often you drink alcohol, you will be asked. Other screening questions towards the end include if you have any issues with intimacy and when the last time you considered suicide was– if ever.