✦ Evaluations & Assessments
A licensed overview before care begins.
All assessments are provided by a licensed mental health professional and seek a useful, broad picture of mental health — including screening informed by the DSM-5.
✦ About Texas Care
Clarity that guides the right next step — not a guess.
Texas Care does not start skills, therapy, or rehabilitation on a hunch. A licensed clinician completes an assessment to understand mood, behavior, trauma, attention, substance use, and related concerns. The result is a picture families can use — and a plan the rest of the team can follow.
This is not a pop-quiz. It is a conversation and a clinical interview designed to be thorough and respectful.
✦ What you walk away with
A picture you can use — and a team that can act on it.
01
A clinical overview
Language for what is going on, without reducing your child to a label.
02
Recommended services
Which Texas Care services fit — and which can wait.
03
A matched QMHP
Hands-on support that follows the plan, not a generic script.
✦ What a session looks like
Questions, listening, and enough time to be accurate.
The assessment is a scheduled clinical interview — often by phone or video, sometimes in person. The clinician asks about symptoms, history, school or work, safety, substances, and what you have already tried. Caregivers of children are part of that conversation. You can say when a question is too much for that moment.
- Licensed mental health professional only
- Screening informed by standard clinical manuals such as the DSM-5
- Safety questions are asked because they matter, not to trap you
- A recommendation for next services, not a mystery verdict
A recommendation for next services, not a mystery verdict
Bring plan information to intake. Eligibility can vary by location.
✦ Skills training FAQs
What happens between the packet and the first QMHP visit.
How long does the assessment take?
Plan for a thorough conversation, not a five-minute screen. Timing varies. We will tell you what to expect when it is scheduled.
Will my child get a diagnosis the same day?
The clinician’s job is a useful clinical picture. Sometimes that includes a diagnosis; sometimes more information is needed. We will not rush a label to fill a form.
What if we already have records from another provider?
Share them during intake or assessment when you can. They help. They do not automatically replace a Texas Care assessment.
✦ Begin when you are ready
The assessment is step three — intake is step one.
Start a youth or adult packet. We review Medicaid, then schedule the licensed interview.