Client ID Application Date Date Completed

Hitchin Counselling Service B

CONFIDENTIAL

Client ID ...... Application date ...... Date completed......

First session

Over the last two weeks, how often have you been bothered by any of the following problems? Please Circle the number that fits you best.

Not at all / Several days / More than half the days / Nearly every day
1 / Little interest or pleasure in doing things / 0 / 1 / 2 / 3
2 / Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless / 0 / 1 / 2 / 3
3 / Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much / 0 / 1 / 2 / 3
4 / Feeling tired, or having little energy / 0 / 1 / 2 / 3
5 / Poor appetite or overeating / 0 / 1 / 2 / 3
6 / Feeling bad about yourself – or that you are a failure or have let yourself or your family down / 0 / 1 / 2 / 3
7 / Trouble concentrating on things, such as reading the newspaper or watching television / 0 / 1 / 2 / 3
8 / Moving or speaking so slowly that other people have noticed? Or the opposite, being so fidgety or restless that you have been moving around a lot more than usual / 0 / 1 / 2 / 3
9 / Thoughts that you would be better off dead or of hurting yourself in some way / 0 / 1 / 2 / 3
10 / Feeling nervous, anxious or on edge / 0 / 1 / 2 / 3
11 / Not being able to stop or control worrying / 0 / 1 / 2 / 3
12 / Worrying too much about different things / 0 / 1 / 2 / 3
13 / Trouble relaxing / 0 / 1 / 2 / 3
14 / Being so restless that it is hard to sit still / 0 / 1 / 2 / 3
15 / Becoming easily annoyed or irritable / 0 / 1 / 2 / 3
16 / Feeling afraid that something awful might happen / 0 / 1 / 2 / 3

17 Overall, how would you rate the severity of your problems?

Please circle one number: 1 for hardly at all – 10 very severe

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Notes to the Questionnaires

The purpose of these questionnaires is to measure changes after counselling.

CONFIDENTIAL

Client ID ...... Application date ...... Date completed......

Every six months

Over the last two weeks, how often have you been bothered by any of the following problems? Please Circle the number that fits you best.

17 Overall, how would you rate the severity of your problems before you started counselling?

Please circle one number: 1 for hardly at all – 10 very severe

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

18 Overall, how would you rate the severity of your problems after six months of counselling?

Please circle one number: 1 for hardly at all – 10 very severe

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

CONFIDENTIAL

Client ID ...... Application date ...... Date completed......

Ending

Over the last two weeks, how often have you been bothered by any of the following problems? Please Circle the number that fits you best.

17 Overall, how would you rate the severity of your problems before you started counselling?

Please circle one number: 1 for hardly at all – 10 very severe

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

18 Overall, how would you rate the severity of your problems after finishing counselling?

Please circle one number: 1 for hardly at all – 10 very severe

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Notes to the Questionnaires

The purpose of these questionnaires is to measure changes after counselling.

Items 1 to 9 are drawn from the Patient Health Questionnaire[1] and focuses on depression. Items 10 to 16 are drawn from the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale[2]. Items 17 and 18 constitute a general ‘before – after’ severity scale.

The first questionnaire is completed by the client at the first counselling session. The second and third questionnaires have an additional item no 18, and are completed by the client after six months and (the Ending Questionnaire) as the client finishes.

CP09.doc 1 Last amended 17 December 2013

[1] Spitzer RL, Kroenke K, Williams JBW. Validation and utility of a self-report version of PRIME-MD: the PHQ primary care study. JAMA 1999; 282(18):1737-1744.

[2] Spitzer RL, Kroenke K, Williams JB, et al. A brief measure for assessing generalised anxiety disorder: the GAD-7. Arch Intern Med 2006;166:1092–7