A self-assessment questionnaire is sent to clients before their first therapy session and after every six therapy sessions thereafter. Completing the self-assessment questionnaire is optional.
The questionnaire combines the “Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ9)” and the “Generalised Anxiety Disorder Assessment (GAD7)”. You can see the questions below:
Part one: Over the last two weeks of your life, how often have you been bothered by the following problems?
Possible answers: Not at all (0), Several days (1), More than half the days (2), Nearly every day (3)
Little interest or pleasure in doing things? |
Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless? |
Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much? |
Feeling tired or having little energy? |
Poor appetite or overeating? |
Feeling bad about yourself - or that you are a failure or have let yourself or your family down? |
Trouble concentrating on things, such as reading the newspaper or watching television? |
Moving or speaking so slowly that other people could have noticed? Or the opposite; being so fidgety or restless that you have been moving around a lot more than usual? |
Thoughts that you would be better off dead, or of hurting yourself in some way? |
Part two: Over the last two weeks of your life, how often have you been bothered by the following problems?
Possible answers: Not at all (0), Several days (1), More than half the days (2), Nearly every day (3)
Feeling nervous, anxious or on edge? |
Not being able to stop or control worrying? |
Worrying too much about different things? |
Trouble relaxing? |
Being so restless that it is hard to sit still? |
Becoming easily annoyed or irritable? |
Feeling afraid as if something awful might happen? |