The sign-up process…Betterhelp/Kirk…
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 given the options of directly, gay, lesbian, bi/pan, “Choose not to say”, “Questioning”, queer, nonsexual, “I do not understand”, and “Other”.
Interestingly enough, users will find listed below this question in the form a highlighted reality: “Therapists on the platform have varied backgrounds. You’ll have the ability to ask for a Christian therapist if needed”. During the intake survey, 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 religion, you will not get asked if you want to match with a therapist of that faith. I attempted answering this concern 3 times, each time saying I was from a different religion, and never got that very same follow-up.
After the questions about your identity and spiritual affiliation, you will be asked to complete concerns about your mental health history, such as whether you have ever remained in therapy before and what led you to therapy today. Alternatives for what led you to treatment include “I have actually been feeling depressed”, “My mood is hindering my job/school efficiency”, “I am mourning”, 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 new skills, assigns you research, and more.
The platform will ask you to rate your present physical health and eating routines from great, fair, and poor.
Then, it will ask you if you are experiencing frustrating sadness or depression. Following this, there will be a few concerns from the Patient Health Survey, or the PHQ-9, an evaluation utilized to screen for depression.
You will be asked if you are presently used along with how typically you consume alcohol. When the last time you thought about suicide was– if ever, other screening concerns towards the end consist of if you have any issues with intimacy and.