The sign-up procedure…Betterhelp Put Subscription On Hold…
From there, you’ll be asked a series of concerns in an intake questionnaire about your gender identity, age, sexual orientation, and relationship status. In detailing your sexual orientation, you are offered the choices of directly, gay, lesbian, bi/pan, “Prefer not to say”, “Questioning”, queer, nonsexual, “I don’t know”, and “Other”.
Interestingly enough, users will discover below this question in the kind a highlighted reality: “Therapists on the platform have varied backgrounds. You’ll have the ability to request a Christian therapist if required”. So, throughout the intake questionnaire, if you address that your religion is Christian, you will be asked “Would you like to be matched with a Christian-based therapist?”
If you respond to that you determine with a various religion, you won’t get asked if you desire to match with a therapist of that faith. I tried addressing this concern 3 times, each time stating I was from a different religion, and never ever got that same follow-up. That being stated, the only choices for “Which faith do you relate to?” consist of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Other.
After the questions about your identity and religious association, you will be asked to complete concerns about your mental health history, such as whether you have actually ever been in treatment prior to and what led you to therapy today. Alternatives for what led you to treatment include “I have actually been feeling depressed”, “My state of mind is interfering with my job/school efficiency”, “I am grieving”, and 10 other options. You will be asked what your expectations are from your therapist, such as a therapist who listens, explores your past, teaches your brand-new skills, appoints you research, and more.
The platform will ask you to rate your existing physical health and eating habits from great, fair, and poor.
It will ask you if you are experiencing overwhelming unhappiness or anxiety. Following this, there will be a couple of questions from the Client Health Questionnaire, or the PHQ-9, an assessment used to screen for anxiety.
You will be asked if you are currently used as well as how frequently you consume alcohol. When the last time you believed about suicide was– if ever, other screening questions towards the end consist of if you have any problems with intimacy and.