When taking a history from a young person HEADS is useful.
We should start with “Everything in this room is confidential” and then run through:
- H
- Home
- Health
- Heros
- Helpers
- E
- Education
- Employment
- Exercise
- Eating
- A
- Activities
- Ambition
- Anxiety
- Affect
- D
- Depression
- Drugs – Alcohol
- Drugs – Cigarettes/Vapes
- Drugs – Other (Prescribed, not prescribed)
- S
- Sleep
- Self-esteem
- Sex and Gender Identity
- Self-harm, Suicide Risk, Safety Risk