The sign-up procedure…Talksapce Vs Betterhelp…
From there, you’ll be asked a series of questions in a consumption questionnaire about your gender identity, age, sexual orientation, and relationship status. In detailing your sexual orientation, you are provided the choices of straight, gay, lesbian, bi/pan, “Choose not to state”, “Questioning”, queer, asexual, “I do not know”, and “Other”.
Remarkably enough, users will find listed below this question in the form a highlighted reality: “Therapists on the platform have varied backgrounds. You’ll be able to request a Christian therapist if needed”. So, throughout the intake questionnaire, if you respond to that your religious beliefs 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 faith, you won’t get asked if you want to match with a therapist of that faith. I tried addressing this question 3 times, each time saying I was from a different religious beliefs, and never got that same follow-up.
After the concerns about your identity and spiritual association, you will be asked to finish concerns about your mental health history, such as whether you have actually ever been in treatment before and what led you to treatment today. Alternatives for what led you to therapy include “I have actually been feeling depressed”, “My state of mind is hindering my job/school efficiency”, “I am grieving”, 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 homework, and more.
The platform will ask you to rank your present physical health and consuming habits from good, reasonable, and bad.
Then, it will ask you if you are experiencing frustrating sadness or depression. Following this, there will be a couple of questions from the Patient Health Survey, or the PHQ-9, an evaluation used to evaluate for depression.
If you are currently used as well as how often you consume alcohol, you will be asked. When the last time you thought about suicide was– if ever, other screening questions towards the end include if you have any issues with intimacy and.