The sign-up process…What Does My Betterhelp Profile Say…
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 provided the choices of straight, gay, lesbian, bi/pan, “Prefer not to state”, “Questioning”, queer, asexual, “I don’t understand”, and “Other”.
Interestingly enough, users will discover below this concern in the form a highlighted reality: “Therapists on the platform have diverse backgrounds. You’ll have the ability to ask for a Christian therapist if required”. Throughout 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 desire to match with a therapist of that faith. I attempted addressing this question three times, each time saying I was from a different faith, and never got that same follow-up.
After the concerns about your identity and spiritual affiliation, you will be asked to complete questions about your psychological health history, such as whether you have actually ever remained in therapy prior to and what led you to therapy today. Choices for what led you to treatment 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 new abilities, designates you homework, and more.
The platform will ask you to rank your existing physical health and consuming habits from excellent, fair, and poor.
It will ask you if you are experiencing overwhelming sadness or anxiety. 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 currently utilized 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 include if you have any issues with intimacy and.