Therapy without
measurement is
expensive
guesswork.

A guide to validated trauma and PTSD screening instruments: PCL-5 (DSM-5), ITQ (ICD-11 PTSD and CPTSD), IES-R (response dynamics), LEC-5 (event inventory), CAPS-5 (clinician-administered gold standard). Why a "trauma test" is not a diagnosis and how to assemble a battery for the clinical task.

ECR-R, AAS, RSQ — validated instruments produce a 2D profile (anxiety × avoidance), not one of "four types". What a clinical attachment test actually shows, and how it differs from popular online quizzes.

Twenty items, balanced positive and negative wording, 50–100 index. How SDS differs from BDI-II and PHQ-9, when it is actually the right choice, and why it remains a standard for epidemiological research.

Nine and seven items, public domain, translated into 80+ languages. Why this pair displaced longer scales and how to use them in MBC practice.

Clinicians who work with others' pain every day systematically underestimate their own exhaustion. Prevalence data, blind spots, and why self-care is not the answer.

The EPDS deliberately excludes somatic symptoms — fatigue, sleep disturbance, appetite changes — because they are normative in the postnatal period. It is the only screening tool designed for the phenomenology of perinatal depression.