Psych evaluations

What does a psych evaluation generally consist of?  My appt is next week

HI ,
I am at the Vanderbilt program with Dr Richards. I saw he is your Dr also.
The psy eval I had was only the Psy nurse asking some questions about being depressed, and binge eating that sort of thing. I thought I would have to take a questionaire type test but It wasnt, it was like having a  conversation.

I am not sure if that was due to my insurance requirement or not. My insurance doesnt require the evaluation I have BC/BS of MA.     

I know that BC/BS TN. does require it.......
  So I dont know if I got the watered down version :)

BC/BS of TN. required two questionnaire's pretty long really I think 600 questions did that at Vandy they sent it to psych. Then I went about a week later and we talked about a half hour and no they didn't put me in the little jacket! They couldn't find one that fit!!!! HeHe!!! C'ya Bob

No Janice, you didn't get the watered down version..........lol. I actually had to sit and reveal some very intimate things about myself and my family and I think it's to pinpoint if one has problems that need work before surgery or to see if anything will hinder you having a successful journey. I'm not sure, I'm not a know it all I just wanted to put 2 pennies in the hat....LOL


Diane

Then Im not sure what the 600 question thing is either then... what is up with that for TN???? 

My hubby and I were both in the office at the same time for our appointments with her.
It was very revealing...dont know if I would recomend it for every hubby and wife LOL...
And she did ask us both diff questions....
mine was geared toward binge eating.....I guess I must have answered something that made that come up...??  but I passed ...and so did He 

and ..We are officialy good for each other LOL 

Thanks so much you guys.  I have BCBS of MN--what ever they do I feel better just having talked with you!  Y'all are the BEST!

Mine was very pleasant, I sat down and talked to Karen Starr, for 30 min. She wanted to know how, what my feel'n were on having the surgery. General stuff. How about the family, support etc. They are there for ya. I didn't have to take no 600 questionaire test, what's up with that???? I did see someone in a room last time I was there tak'n some type of test??? I wondered what she was do'n I thought she was putt'n in a qpplication for a job? oops wrong answer I guess. Hugs Glitter Pictures
 Hon, I know that you will do great !!!!! We are here to support ya!! Barb

Thank you so much!  My appt is with Karen Starr, too. That's one thing I do have is a great support system with my family and friends.  Now I have you all to help too.! It gives me a lot of peace knowing I can talk to you guys about your experiences, that hopefully will be mine soon!  Erika

Since I live just outside of Huntsville, Alabama, I had my psych evaluation with a Dr. down here.  I had to take a 2 part written test that consisted of 683 multi-choice, yes-no, and true-false questions. It was somewhat strange as far as the makeup of the questions and how they worded them.  I would answer a question, then find it again only worded differently so that it appeared that if I answered it, I would be contridicting the answer to the first version of the question. Then there would be true-false statements like: "I love my mother more than anyone else.  True  False " A few questions down: "I love my father more than anyone else.  True  False  "  Ummm, if I answer yes to both does it make me a liar, weird, stupid, undecided, or what?  Another question was " Have you ever taken anything that did not belong to you?"  The key word is ANYTHING.    So do you answer Yes or No? I've never STOLEN anything - but I have taken things that did not belong to me.  Who hasn't taken a pen from work, eaten a cookie when someone turned their back, etc?

I had to go back a week later to go over the results and get my "score".
The Doc explained that the test is designed to be graded on a special scale that tells them how you are wired as far as temperment, thought processes, and emotions.

I passed - which is all that mattered to me.  He gave me a letter of support stating that I was psychologically able to have the surgery and succeed in following the guidelines afterwards.

Sorry to be so long in answering, but hope this helps.

It helps a lot, thanks!