Consultation forms

[breeze]

Hiya,

please could I ask what your consultation forms look like? What info do you include and what do you ask for?

Thank you!

[potion]

I'm a little confused by your question as I would have thought this would have been covered in your training so I'm not sure whether I'm missing what you really want to know. However, in a nutshell, I ask clients details such as:

• Name, dob, address and occupation
• Why they've come for treatment
• Medical history
• Lifestyle information

Is this what you were asking?

[breeze]

Thank you for your reply. Sorry to confuse you. It was of course covered in my course but not in great detail and it was quite a few years ago now. It was only recently that I was looking at my form and wondering if i really need all the info I ask for or if there was other info I am missing.

For example, one of the questions is marital status. Do I really need to know if they are married or not?? Maybe a better question would be something along the lines of what kind of lifestyle they have like you have mentioned?

If anyone has any more tips on this I would love to hear them.

Thank you!

[SoleRelax]

Hiya,

Have you joined a professional body yet?

I am with the AOR and they actually supply approved consultation forms and follow up forms which cover all the necessary information that you need to obtain from your client.

I was trained in gaining alot more info from the client than the essentials that are covered on the form. This is really good to gain a complete oversight of your client and look at their whole lifestyle however it doesn't really work in practise as you don't have too much time with them.

If a client books up for a whole course of treatments then you can add your own question list to the pre printed ones from the association but at least you know you have covered the basics.

I hope this helps

[Hava]

Hi I got mine on e-bay they came as PDF file and they are great, I dyslexic so it save me a lot of time trying to type all he information myself ,

[Urban_Hippy]

The consultation forms your given when training are only a guide line. I frequently change and up-date mine.

[jeannie]

Although it is necessary to get an insight in to why a client comes to us and a little background, I think it depends on the therapy you are giving as to what depth you need to go into things. When doing my own research years ago, I felt quite irritated by some of the questions, even marital status, what the heck, why does that matter. I don't think we should pry too much. I have my own forms but when joining the FHT recently I notice you can purchase them there.

Just noticed breeze posted in May! are you out there breeze, did you sort your forms out?

[bloomholistic]

That's really interesting Jeannie. It never occurred to me that it may irritate or insult a client to ask about their marital status. You'd probably hate to have a consultation with me! I always ask whether they're married, living with anyone or in a relationship, I really want a very clear overview of the client, I find that having a 'birds eye' view of the clients (perspective on) life - in general and day to day is really helpful when treating them holistically. The more details the better! I find that's when I'll start to see patterns or correlations between any health issues and their emotional/ mental state of mind, and their life style choices. The people closest to us, especially those we live with, I believe have a large impact on our happiness our feelings of security in the world, or equally our frustration or anger, and I also believe that our consistent thoughts and emotions our responsible for most (all...) of our physical issues. It's all necessary information in my eyes. I take a full systems overview which means asking about pooing frequency and consistency (constipated etc), and with the ladies their periods- blood flow, colour pmt symptoms etc. I think asking if they're married is the least of their worries!

So I ask a lot of questions, I'll often take up to an hour, this is how i was trained (AOR) I do think it helps, well myself anyway.

But I'm probably just nosy!