A mental health screening is a standard set of questions that a person answers to help a health care provider check for signs of a mental disorder.

The questions help the provider learn about a person's mood, thinking, behavior, and memory.

It is a way to catch mental health conditions early.

If the screening shows signs of a disorder, more testing is usually needed to diagnose a specific mental disorder

What this screening is used for?

It is usually used as the first step to find out if a person has signs of a mental disorder.

It may be part of a routine checkup.

Basically its used to see whether a person:

Has a risk for developing a mental disorder

Needs more testing to diagnose or rule out a mental health disorder

Needs mental health care right away, before diagnostic testing can be finished

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