Screening for Mental Health

 Resources for Mental Health Screening

The AHC has been working with partner agencies to pilot a mental health screening process, using a validated screening tool. Preliminary feedback on this process will be presented soon.  

We encourage interested screeners to explore various options and pick the tool(s) that feel the most relevant and helpful for addressing the concerns of your client population. Listed below is a great resource for exploring alternative screening tools and surveys.

• Psychosocial Measures for Asian American Populations : Tools for Direct Practice and Research.  This website, championed by Dr. Marianne Yoshioka of Columbia University has a comprehensive list of screening tools used in both adult and child & adolescent populations. The website lists which Asian populations these tools have been effectively implemented in as well as the purpose of each tool.
  

 

For communities and individuals interested in screening clients using the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) or the PHQ-9 (short version), please feel free to download the most appropriate version from the list below:

PHQ-9 (Shortened Version):

This tool has been used primarily to screen for depression.

• English - Short version
• Cantonese (Chinese)- Short Version 
• Mandarin (Chinese)- Short Version
• Korean- Short Version
• Khmer (Cambodian)- Short version
• Vietnamese- Short Version

*Instructions for scoring the PHQ-9 can be found here (for tentative assessment) and here (for assessing severity):

 

 Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)

The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) is designed to facilitate the recognition and diagnosis of the most common mental disorders in primary care patients. The PHQ looks at symptoms for: somatoform disorder, depressive syndrome, anxiety disorder, somatoform disorder, eating disorder, and substance use .  

• English
• Cantonese (Chinese)
  
• Mandarin (Chinese)
  
• Korean
• Khmer (Cambodian)
• Vietnamese