Mental Health Intake Forms

Most start with a therapy or psychiatry intake form: the reason for the visit, current symptoms, past treatment, medications, and history. Many add short screeners, such as the PHQ-9 for depression or the GAD-7 for anxiety. Specialty services, like ADHD evaluations or substance use programs, use their own forms.

They are short screening questionnaires, often given alongside intake. The PHQ-9 has nine items on depression and the GAD-7 has seven items on anxiety, both about the past two weeks. A score points to what to explore further. It is not a diagnosis.

A therapy intake focuses on what brings the client in, their goals, relationships, and history. A psychiatry intake asks more about medical history, current and past medications, and how earlier treatment worked, because psychiatric care often includes medication.

Usually a parent or guardian completes the history and background. Teens may answer some questions themselves. Some forms, like the Vanderbilt ADHD parent form or the eating disorder parent questionnaire, are written for the parent from the start.

An AI avatar asks the intake questions as a conversation, in the patient's or client's own language, and collects the answers for the team to review. Clinicians read the answers before the first session and decide what to do with them.

Start with the general intake for the care you offer: the therapy intake form for counseling, or the psychiatry new patient intake for medication care. Add the PHQ-9 and GAD-7 if you track symptoms over time, then the forms for any specialty services.

No. It collects information for the care team. It doesn't diagnose, triage, or recommend treatment.

Yes. RAVATAR offers on-prem deployment: the platform can run inside your own perimeter, so patient answers stay there. RAVATAR complies with GDPR and the EU AI Act.