Mental Health Assessment Form

Different mental health assessments may be used depending on the age of the patient. Adolescents and children will have a different mental health assessment than adults or the elderly, and their psychosocial histories may focus more on their early development whereas adults or the elderly will focus more on their vocational or educational history.

A mental health assessment is, above everything, a conversation with your patient. Your clinical insights and observations during this conversation form important evidence that makes up the mental health assessment. To conduct a mental health assessment, therefore, you should be able to talk with your patient face-to-face in a sufficiently quiet and uninterrupted session to allow you to make important observations.

The answer to this question will depend on your patient’s progress, and if there are any significant changes or updates to their care. While you may only conduct a full mental health assessment on intake, components of the mental health assessment such as the risk assessment or mental health assessment may be conducted more frequently.