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Klinische handleidingen, best practices en inzichten voor therapeuten die gestandaardiseerde testen gebruiken.
Getting Started with Digital Assessment: A Step-by-Step Guide for Therapists
You've decided to integrate digital outcome measurement into your practice. The evidence supports it, your patients deserve it, and it's time. Now what?
The Hidden Cost of Hand-Scoring: Why Automated Assessment Scoring Matters
You're a skilled clinician. You can score a PHQ-9 in your sleep. Add up nine numbers, check the severity range, done. What could go wrong?
How to Build the Right Assessment Battery for Your Practice
You're convinced that routine outcome measurement is worth doing. You've read the evidence. You're ready to start. And then you face the practical question: which instruments should I actually use?
CUDIT-R: Screening for Cannabis Use Disorders in an Era of Normalization
Cannabis legalization and cultural normalization have changed how patients think and talk about their use. What was once a behavior patients concealed is now something many discuss openly — sometim...
Adult ADHD Screening: Using the ASRS in Clinical Practice
Adult ADHD is having a moment. Awareness has surged, referrals have multiplied, and suddenly every clinician's caseload seems to include patients wondering whether they have ADHD. Some of these pat...
PHQ-15: When the Body Speaks What the Mind Can't — Somatic Symptom Assessment
Headaches. Stomach pain. Back pain. Dizziness. Fatigue that no amount of sleep resolves. Many patients present to mental health clinicians with physical symptoms that medical workups have failed to...
BSL-23: Measuring Borderline Symptom Severity and Treatment Progress
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is one of the most clinically challenging conditions to treat — and to measure. The emotional instability, interpersonal chaos, and identity disturbance that c...
Detecting Treatment Non-Response Early: A Data-Driven Approach
A patient has been coming to therapy for two months. They're engaged, insightful, do their homework. Sessions feel productive. You're both doing good work — or so it seems.
SDQ: Assessing Child and Adolescent Mental Health with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
Assessing mental health in children and adolescents presents unique challenges. Young people often lack the language to describe their internal experiences. Externalizing behaviors (aggression, hyp...
CORE-OM: The Therapist's Tool for Tracking Overall Clinical Progress
Most clinical outcome measures focus on a single dimension: depression, anxiety, alcohol use. But therapy rarely addresses a single dimension. Patients come with complex, overlapping difficulties —...
EAT-26: Screening for Eating Disorders in Mental Health Practice
Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental health condition, yet they remain among the most underdiagnosed. The average delay between symptom onset and treatment is 4–5 years. P...
How Routine Assessment Strengthens (Not Undermines) the Therapeutic Alliance
The most common objection therapists raise against routine outcome monitoring goes something like this: "I don't want to reduce my patients to numbers. The therapeutic relationship is what heals, a...
AUDIT: The Gold Standard for Alcohol Use Screening in Clinical Practice
Alcohol use disorders are among the most common and most underdetected conditions in mental health settings. Patients with depression, anxiety, PTSD, and insomnia frequently have comorbid problemat...
Patient Anonymity in Digital Assessment: Why It Matters and How It Works
Digital health tools promise efficiency. They also introduce legitimate questions about data security, patient privacy, and clinical ethics. When the data involves psychological assessment — intima...
The WHO-5 Wellbeing Index: The 5-Question Screener Every Practice Should Use
At five items and roughly one minute of patient time, the WHO-5 Wellbeing Index is the shortest validated mental health screener in widespread clinical use. It's also one of the most underappreciated.
Digital vs. Paper-Based Assessment: What the Research Actually Shows
If you're still using paper forms for psychological assessment, you're not alone. Many clinicians are understandably cautious about changing something that works. But the research comparing digital...
The DASS-21: One Instrument for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress
When a patient walks into your office, they rarely come with a single, neatly categorized problem. Depression bleeds into anxiety. Anxiety fuels stress. Stress worsens depression. You need an instr...
Measurement-Based Care: The Evidence-Based Practice Most Therapists Aren't Using
Here's an uncomfortable finding from psychotherapy research: clinicians are poor at judging how their patients are doing. Studies consistently show that therapists fail to detect deterioration in r...
The GAD-7: How to Screen and Monitor Anxiety Effectively
Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health conditions worldwide, yet they remain underdiagnosed in clinical settings. The Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale (GAD-7) was developed to...
The PHQ-9: A Clinician's Complete Guide to Depression Screening
A comprehensive guide to the PHQ-9 depression screener, covering scoring, item-level analysis, measurement-based care integration, and common clinical pitfalls.