The sign-up process…Betterhelp Pause…
From there, you’ll be asked a series of concerns in a consumption survey about your gender identity, age, sexual orientation, and relationship status. In detailing your sexual orientation, you are provided the options of straight, gay, lesbian, bi/pan, “Prefer not to say”, “Questioning”, queer, asexual, “I don’t understand”, and “Other”.
Interestingly enough, users will discover below this question in the kind a highlighted reality: “Therapists on the platform have diverse backgrounds. You’ll have the ability to request a Christian therapist if required”. During the intake survey, 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 address that you recognize with a different faith, you won’t get asked if you desire to match with a therapist of that faith. I attempted answering this question three times, each time saying I was from a various religion, and never ever got that same follow-up.
After the questions about your identity and religious affiliation, you will be asked to finish questions about your mental health history, such as whether you have actually ever been in treatment prior to and what led you to therapy today. Alternatives for what led you to treatment consist of “I’ve been feeling depressed”, “My state of mind is disrupting my job/school efficiency”, “I am grieving”, and 10 other options. 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 skills, appoints you research, and more.
The platform will ask you to rank your current physical health and consuming routines from excellent, reasonable, and bad.
It will ask you if you are experiencing frustrating sadness or depression. Following this, there will be a couple of concerns from the Patient Health Questionnaire, or the PHQ-9, an evaluation utilized to evaluate for anxiety.
You will be asked if you are presently used along with how often you consume alcohol. Other screening questions towards completion consist of if you have any issues with intimacy and when the last time you considered suicide was– if ever.