Mental Health Center Intake Question Paper

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1. Does it ask all of the necessary questions to determine what the client’s presenting problem is? Please support your answer. After reading through the entire intake form for the Northside Mental Health Center, I would say that it does ask most of the necessary questions to determine the reason for the client’s visit. There are questions related to substance abuse, eating disorders, and even gender identity and sexual functioning. In saying that I think the questionnaire asks most of the necessary questions, I implied that it didn’t ask all of them. One example of a missed question relates to prior diagnoses. There is a question asking the client to state where they have been treated in the past, why they were there, and to describe whether it was inpatient or outpatient, but after double-checking the questionnaire, there is not a question asking what diagnoses the individual already has (Northside Mental Health Center intake questionnaire, p. 2). Another example of a missing question relates to current prescriptions. One question on the form asks about over the counter medications that are being taken, but there is not a single question asking about prescription drugs that are being taken (Northside Mental Health Center intake questionnaire, …show more content…

Considering it is an intake questionnaire for a mental health center, there are very few questions related to the mental health of the client. As mentioned above, they ask questions related to eating disorders, substance abuse, and a potential gambling problem, but there aren’t any questions about mental health diagnoses or the associated medications. In fact, the only question expressly stating it’s relativity to mental health is the question asking about previous treatment placements. I’ve never had mental health issues, so have never had to fill out an intake form, but those seem like fairly important questions to have been left off of the

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