Child Biopsychosocial Assessment

13 Page PDF Digital Download

Our child biopsychosocial assessment and formulation worksheets have been developed to support psychologists, counsellors, therapists, social workers, and allied health professionals conducting comprehensive child mental health assessments and treatment planning.

This resource takes a practical, developmentally informed, and biopsychosocial approach to child assessment, helping clinicians gather meaningful information across emotional, behavioural, family, social, cultural, and risk-related domains. It combines structured assessment templates, child engagement prompts, risk and safety considerations, and formulation tools designed to support clear clinical understanding and collaborative treatment planning.

All information, exercises, and activities included in this resource are designed to be flexible, clinically practical, and easy to integrate into intake sessions, ongoing assessment, documentation, and case formulation work.

What do our child biopsychosocial assessment and formulation worksheets cover

This 13-page bundle includes structured assessment templates, conversation prompts, and formulation tools to help clinicians:

• Conduct comprehensive child biopsychosocial assessments
• Gather information across emotional, behavioural, developmental, family, school, and social domains
• Explore presenting concerns, emotional well-being, and behavioural patterns
• Understand family functioning, caregiver wellbeing, and environmental stressors
• Assess peer relationships, school concerns, cultural considerations, and community supports
• Identify trauma history, adverse childhood experiences, and safety concerns
• Document risk concerns, including self-harm, suicidality, and mandatory reporting considerations
• Identify protective factors, strengths, and existing support systems
• Explore the child’s perspective using developmentally appropriate prompts
• Support child engagement through age-specific conversation strategies
• Develop preliminary case formulations using the 5 P’s formulation model
• Organise assessment findings to support treatment planning and referrals
• Structure intake sessions in a clear, flexible, and clinically practical way

Who are our child biopsychosocial assessment and formulation worksheets for

Designed by a registered psychologist, this resource is ideal for psychologists, counsellors, therapists, social workers, and allied health professionals working with children and families.

Suitable for use across private practice, educational, community, and mental health settings, including intake assessments, ongoing therapy, child and adolescent mental health work, behavioural support, and multidisciplinary care planning. Appropriate for clinicians working with a broad range of emotional, behavioural, developmental, and psychosocial presentations in children and young people. This product also comes with a Canva editable template version for customisation.