Therapy without
measurement is
expensive
guesswork.

Each month 12,000+ people search for "fearful-avoidant attachment type" and variants. Mickelson, Kessler & Shaver (1997, NCS, N=8,098): fearful-avoidant ≈ 5% of US general population. In clinical samples the rate is markedly higher. It is the only type combining high attachment anxiety AND high attachment avoidance — a "two-front conflict" (Mikulincer & Shaver 2007). How ECR-R identifies it, what EFT outcome studies show (Wiebe 2017), and why self-help is usually insufficient here.

Each month 16,000+ people search for "codependency test" and its variants. Hard fact: <strong>codependency is absent as a standalone diagnosis from DSM-5 and ICD-11</strong>. Cermak (1986) proposed adding Co-Dependent Personality Disorder to DSM-III-R — APA rejected it. Since then it has remained a descriptive pattern, not a nosological entity. What the science says about the 4 most-cited scales (SFCS, CdQ, HCI, CCS), and which three validated constructs to measure instead.

Each month 16,000+ people in Russia search for "how to manage anxiety" or "how to manage depression". Cuijpers et al. 2019 Network Meta-Analysis (N=15,191): SMD 0.87–1.02 for guided self-help vs waitlist in mild-to-moderate depression. A 5-criterion decision tree, red flags for immediate clinician contact, and how to self-track progress using PHQ-9 / GAD-7 without a psychology degree.

"Depression" is not one diagnosis but a family. Hasin et al. 2018 (NESARC-III, n=36,309): lifetime MDD in 20.6% of US adults, with 74.6% having anxious/distressed specifier — "pure" MDD without modifiers practically does not exist. DSM-5 distinguishes MDD, PDD, postpartum, atypical, melancholic, psychotic, seasonal — each changes the choice of instrument. PHQ-9, BDI-II, EPDS, CES-DC, HAM-D, Zung — which scale for which situation.

Each month over 12,000 Russians search for "psychological tests online". Lau et al. 2020 in a systematic audit of 1,009 mental-health apps: only 2.08% had peer-reviewed evidence of effectiveness. What separates a validated instrument from entertainment: six criteria (Cronbach α, factor structure, normative tables, sensitivity/specificity, peer-review, cross-cultural replication). Demonstrated on four Soveria-catalog examples: PHQ-9, ECR-R, PCL-5, BHS.

A spec-audience deep dive into article #15. Sibley, Fischer & Liu 2005: 85% shared variance over a 3-week interval — trait-level stability of ECR-R. Brief versions (ECR-12 Lafontaine 2016, ECR-RS Fraley 2011 on N>21,000), the 2D profile in couples therapy and EFT, Russian-language adaptations by Kashirsky and Chistopolskaya.