Requesting: Intake Form, Symptom Checklist (DSM-5), and Screening & Assessments
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I'm in the process of updating my paperwork for Intake. I'd love if people would share their intake forms, symptom checklists, and screenings and assessments they use. I primarily work with individual adults.
But I'd also love couples and family intake, questionnaires etc.
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Hi Elizabeth! Prior to SP, I made a lot of my forms would be happy to share any of my stuff, but don't know if there's any way to upload a document to this forum.
There's a recently updated release of info on the forms page of my website, along with a "consent for collateral participants in therapy", which I adapted from something public dom (probably from the APA's Insurance Trust). https://www.drlauraforsyth.com/forms.html
As for symptom screeners, there's lots in the public domain, created either for primary care physicians or health/mental health organizations, universities, etc. Even simple screeners like the PHQ-9 and the CUDOS for depression, the GAD-7 for generalized anxiety and the ASRS for adult ADHD (my practice niche) are all psychometrically sound and useful, with decent sensitivity/specificity. (can you tell I was a clinical supervisor for years and years?) While I also use the BDI, BAI and other proprietary scales, like Barkley's for ADHD, the public ones are tried and true.
There is one intake form I made that anyone can access - it's for college students getting mental health counseling at my old student health center. http://www.moorparkcollege.edu/departments/student-services/health-center/forms It's intended to to cover a lot of ground quickly - I borrowed, adapted and mashed together the best pieces from other people's questionnaires (all public domain). If any of it fits for your purposes, feel free to adapt it!
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Laura,
Thank you for providing feedback! I really love learning from experienced peers. Between being raised by an educator and having a natural desire to discover, I find myself searching out mentors to learn and collaborate often.
Anything you'd like to share would be more than appreciated! You can feel free to email me at elizabeth@hockercounseling.com
By the way, I loved your site! I was clean, concise, easy to navigate, and spoke to your ideal client.
Warmly,
Elizabeth
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Hey Laura-
I looked on your site to try to get your college student intake form but the link didn't connect. Would you be able to share that with me? I primarily work with emerging adults. megancliffordlcswr@gmail.com
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Sure - here's a different link (my google drive) to a Word version of the college form. I wish we could create formatted forms in SP - those long lists of items (scroll, scroll, scroll) drive me batty.
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