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Practice software: why a scattered stack costs more than it looks

Some practice software is paid for and never counted; others are replaced by a notebook and a messenger. Both have a price — it just does not arrive as an invoice.

8 min

Aug 28, 2026

Editorial

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Contract, informed consent and client data: the paperwork of private practice

A service contract, informed consent, health-data consent and an intake form. What each document actually protects — and what it does not.

8 min

Aug 28, 2026

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CBT worksheets: how to fill in a thought record so it actually works

Four core CBT worksheets — thought record, behavioural experiment, exposure hierarchy and a homework form. How to fill them in, and the mistakes that turn them into paperwork.

7 min

Jul 14, 2026

Editorial

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Personality disorder test: what validated instruments show and why IDRlabs is not a diagnosis

Each month 159,453 people in Russia search for "personality disorder test" — the single largest query in all of Soveria's content research, three times "attachment style test". Most find the free 105-item IDRlabs quiz, which has zero independent peer-reviewed validations. What a personality disorder actually is, how it is assessed clinically (PID-5, IPDE, SCID-5-PD), why even a validated self-report does not yield a diagnosis, and why psychiatry itself (ICD-11) moved from 10 labels to measuring 5 traits.

11 min

May 21, 2026

Editorial

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Lazarus Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WCQ): what it showed, what it did not, and what to use now

Each month 1,700+ people search for "Lazarus questionnaire" in various phrasings — it is the academic standard of post-Soviet psychology and a foundational coping-research instrument. Folkman & Lazarus (1980) → Folkman et al. (1986, WCQ): 66 items, 8 subscales. But Schwartz et al. (1999, JPSP): self-report coping scales share only 0–12% variance with how people actually cope day-to-day — across 16 of 17 dimensions. This article covers the historical significance of WCQ, its methodological limits, and what to use in 2026 (CISS, Brief COPE), including the Russian-language adaptation of Brief COPE-A by Marakshina 2023 (N=3,530).

10 min

May 17, 2026

Editorial

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Parental burnout: what the PBA measures and why it is not "job burnout"

Each month 2,350+ people search for "parental burnout" and its variants. This is not "ordinary tiredness", nor occupational burnout transferred to the family. Roskam, Aguiar, Akgun et al. (2021, IIPB, N=17,409 across 42 countries): parental burnout is empirically detected cross-culturally with substantial variation by culture. Mikolajczak et al. (2018, Child Abuse & Neglect, N=1,551): PB has specific consequences — child neglect, aggression, escape and suicidal ideation — that job burnout does not predict. What the PBA measures (Roskam, Brianda & Mikolajczak 2018, 23 items, α 0.97), and where the honest limits of the instrument lie in a Russian context.

10 min

May 17, 2026

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