The sign-up process…Betterhelp Vector…
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 provided the options of directly, gay, lesbian, bi/pan, “Choose not to state”, “Questioning”, queer, nonsexual, “I do not know”, and “Other”.
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Surprisingly enough, users will find listed below this question in the type a highlighted fact: “Therapists on the platform have diverse backgrounds. You’ll be able to ask for a Christian therapist if required”. Throughout the intake survey, if you address that your faith 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 won’t get asked if you want to match with a therapist of that faith. I attempted addressing this question 3 times, each time saying I was from a different religion, and never got that exact same follow-up. That being said, the only options for “Which faith do you identify with?” include Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Other.
After the concerns about your identity and spiritual association, you will be asked to complete questions about your psychological health history, such as whether you have actually ever remained in treatment before and what led you to therapy today. Choices for what led you to therapy include “I’ve been feeling depressed”, “My state of mind is hindering my job/school performance”, “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, assigns you homework, and more.
The platform will ask you to rank your existing physical health and eating practices from good, reasonable, and bad.
Then, it will ask you if you are experiencing overwhelming unhappiness or anxiety. Following this, there will be a few concerns from the Patient Health Survey, or the PHQ-9, an assessment utilized to evaluate for depression.
You will be asked if you are presently used as well as how often you drink alcohol. When the last time you believed about suicide was– if ever, other screening questions towards the end include if you have any problems with intimacy and.
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