Mental Health Intake Form Analysis

Mental Health Intake Form Critique

Does it ask all of the necessary questions to determine what the client’s presenting problem is?

To perform a proper assessment on an individual, a clinician looks at a variety of aspects of an individual’s life such as biological, psychological, social, and spiritual. It is important to understand how these aspects impact the individual and how these aspects impact the way an individual interacts with others and their environment (Hepworth, Rooney, Rooney, Strom-Gottfried, 2013). The mental health intake form can support a clinician with providing foundation information for a client. This intake form touches on multiple aspects of an individual’s life including biological, psychological, social, and

The questions I would ask to get a better understanding of someone’s social life would be as follows: What do you like to do in your free time? Do you feel that you have a social support system? How often do you partake in activities that do not involve your work or family? I believe that questions such as these can inform a clinician of an individual’s social life. Identifying a lack of social activities of how they spend their free time outside of work and family could be helpful when trying to understand what is influencing the current problem. In this intake form, I would also include a section to discuss migration or born outside of the United States. I feel that this is an important piece of information because it can speak to the individual’s cultural background. When looking at cultural differences, people may learn to cope differently depending on what culture they were raised in. Understanding where a person is from and allowing them to share their experiences from moving to a different country and acclimating to an unknown place can provide a clinician with more insight on the individual. I would take out the treatment goals out of the beginning due to it feeling misplaced and depending on if the person checks that they are currently seeing someone, that questions can be asked face to face. This can also be found out by getting paperwork

It seems that this would be better in a different location of the form due to the prior question asking what are the problems for which a person is seeking help. I feel that this section could be more beneficial at the end after the individual is asked the other questions on the form. It seems out of place to ask for their treatment goals right at the beginning of the intake form. AS previously stated, I would take this section out or ask an individual face to face what their current treatment goals