The sign-up process…What Is Betterhelp?…
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 options of directly, gay, lesbian, bi/pan, “Prefer 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 truth: “Therapists on the platform have diverse backgrounds. You’ll be able to ask for a Christian therapist if required”. During the consumption 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 various faith, you won’t get asked if you desire to match with a therapist of that faith. I tried answering this question 3 times, each time saying I was from a different faith, and never got that same follow-up. That being said, the only alternatives for “Which faith do you relate to?” consist of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Other.
After the questions about your identity and religious affiliation, you will be asked to complete concerns about your mental health history, such as whether you have actually ever remained in therapy before and what led you to treatment today. Alternatives for what led you to treatment consist of “I have actually been feeling depressed”, “My mood is disrupting 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 brand-new abilities, designates you research, and more.
The platform will ask you to rate your current physical health and eating habits from excellent, reasonable, and poor.
Then, it will ask you if you are experiencing frustrating unhappiness or depression. Following this, there will be a few questions from the Client Health Questionnaire, or the PHQ-9, an assessment utilized to evaluate for depression.
If you are currently utilized as well as how typically you consume alcohol, you will be asked. Other screening concerns towards the end consist of if you have any issues with intimacy and when the last time you thought of suicide was– if ever.