Quickview® Social History

Author: Ronald A. Giannetti, PhD

The Quickview^® Social History inventory helps provide the clinician with a complete psychosocial history in nine major areas in a limited amount of time. Clinicians can use this test to help:

• Screen for social, psychological, and physical problems to aid diagnosis and treatment planning
• Facilitate DSM-IV® diagnostic classification
• Clarify client history for follow-up interviews
• Expedite routine data collection and report writing

Key Features

• Enables the clinician or other staff to collect a standardized set of social and clinical data on every client with a minimal amount of administration time.



• Designed to help meet Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations' (JCAHO) consolidated standards for psychological assessment.

Quick Facts

About the Author

Ronald A. Giannetti, PhD, is currently the Dean of the School of Psychology at the Fielding Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California. He previously held several positions in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Eastern Virginia Medical School and in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Utah College of Medicine. His research experience includes the use of computer-assisted assessment with psychiatric patients, and he has been professionally involved with computer applications in health care throughout his career.

Areas of Inquiry

Report Option

Interpretive Report (Product Number 51475)
The report provides a narrative description of client demographic and clinical information. The Symptom Screen section presents client-reported information about general and mental health status. The Follow-Up Interview Summary presents data in a format that is useful for subsequent interviews.

View a sample Interpretive Report.

Scoring Options

Q Local™ Software - Enables you to score assessments, report results, and store and export data on your computer.

Mail-in Scoring Service - Specially designed answer sheets are mailed to us for processing within 24–48 hours of receipt and returned via regular mail.

- Allows you to score the assessments at your site.

Common Questions and Answers

What happens when the answers don't cover all possibilities (e.g., for corporal punishment) and the client chooses the "Other" response? Is this captured in the report?
Yes, it will be captured both in the basic narrative and in the"Follow-Up Interview Summary."