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Diagnosis in adults

NAS63610

The first part of the diagnosis is a telephone interview with a parent or older brother or sister who knew you as a child or who knows you well.

What about the second part? I've seen here in order to assess you the assessors give you tasks to do and these are aimed at children.

Is this correct?

  • I had a bunch of questionnaires to fill out, plus my sister was given two to do, plus I had 2 long, face-to-face interviews, both of which my father also attended. I wasn't given any tasks. This was a few months ago and I went the private route. I'm 45.

  • Hi. I think it depends on the diagnostic service assessing you. The first stage for mine was a series of questionnaires; one set had to be filled out by me, and I had two more sets for someone who knew me as a child (my mum, in my case) and someone who knows me well now (my partner, who lives with me). The second stage was a telephone assessment with me; this happened about a month ago. The third stage is going to be the face-to-face ADOS assessment; I'm told that I don't need to bring a family member for that (again, I think that varies depending on the assessors). I think it does involve assessment tasks, but I'm not sure what exactly. 

  • in reply to Cassandro

    These answers have reassured me. Cassandro, I was concerned about the second part but I do not have much information about the process.

  • Pretty much. My diagnosis was three face-to-face sessions. My history was taken without a family member present. The 'tasks' are part of a structured assessment - I had ADOS-2 which I think is most common. ADOS-2 is used for both adults and children, in different ways. Some of the ADOS tasks involve children's stories, which might be seen as patronising (but then that's psychiatry for you). I didn't find anything offputting or difficult about the tasks, and wouldn't want to say more because it probably wouldn't give a fair assessment if you research it too much. Whether they are doing face-to-face assessments at the moment I don't know - there are some simple props like books which may need to be sanitised.

    Do you have a particular worry about the assessment?

  • Hi NAS63610,

    I had a telephone screening first by the health team, then I was sent questionnaires from the CLASS clinic in Cambridge, quite a few from memory. Then a relative was asked to complete a separate questionnaire about my childhood and I was not privy to this. These were all collated by the CLASS clinic, and finally I was placed on the waiting list for assessment. I wasn't given any tasks, only the questionnaires and they weren't aimed at children.