Evaluating/Reviewing Therapy Form

How many people here fill out forms to chart their progress in therapy and/or the therapeutic relationship with your T?

I've never seen such a form or filled one out.

I have had to and I suppose I will have to do it again at some point. I hate them and think they are a waste of time. I hate it most when I aren't prepared in advance and go in for my session only for my t to say "Today we have these forms we need to fill it." So annoying.

That would feel like a test that I had to answer in the right way.

I haven’t had to answer one of those and it would bother me to be asked to.

I have never had to fill out any forms. I think my T just relies on me to track my progress with my goals and report back to her.

I used to have to fill out forms with ex-Ts, but it was either for the clinic they were a part of or for Medicaid.

i don't know about therapists but physicians may have to survey their patients every so often as part of the (onerous) process of retaining board certification.

At two practices I have gone to they had you fill our a form prior to being called back to see T. As I recall the questions were a few lines to say something about your week, a place to rate various symptoms, a place to say what you had done for homework, and a place to write what you wanted to talk about that session.

I usually left them mostly blank. There were a few times where there was something I wanted to talk about that I felt ok with writing on the form. One T did leaf through some when I said I was having trouble sleeping and commented that it seemed to go up and down. Which was true.

There wasn't a place to rate how effective I was finding therapy.

I used to work for an organisation which did Core 10 forms for clients at the beginning and end of therapy to measure its efficacy. I found them pointless, intrusive, and that life has too many variables for them to be an effective measure of the therapy. For instance, outcomes were significantly better in therapy ending in summer than winter. I get they were essentially to justify funding to continue to offer free therapy but I think the data itself was pretty useless.

Nope, I've never had to fill out any such form. It would definitely make me feel uncomfortable.

I would not have minded a form for telling the therapist how she failed each week - but I did that on my own.

I've never had to do this. And the only time my therapist as referred to therapy as a relationship is when she gets irritated and I point it out and she says people get irritated in relationships. Other than that, she has not once mentioned my therapy in those terms. I talk about things going well from time to time, but thankfully don't fill out a form for that.

Thank goodness I do not have to do that.

I have to answer 8 questions on a tablet each session based on a sliding rating scale. 4 questions rate my therapist for the last session and 4 questions rate how ai have felt over the last week. I just touch the line to rank each question from good to bad. It takes about 30 seconds. At first I hated it but now I kind of like it as an easy way to silently voice my displeasure on something he did during the previous session. It opens the door and he initiates and asks me what he could have done better.

I think it's a good idea. I've read about feedback forms like that but never had one given to me. It seems like it would give the therapist information they need to have and may not get in the sessions. I get customer surveys and requests for "how did we do" all the time from other businesses, even my health care provider.