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Diagnosis in adults

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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?

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  • 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?

  • 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.

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