Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ)
Description The Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) is a 15-item self-report screening instrument that can be used to identify clients most likely to have bipolar disorder. The MDQ assists in identifying bipolar disorder and distinguishing it from other mood disturbances in clinical populations. Past research has found that MDQ total scores are associated with anxi...
Professional Self Doubt Scale (PSD)
Description The Professional Self Doubt scale (PSD) is a 9-item self-report questionnaire designed to assess the level of uncertainty a therapist (e.g. psychologist, counsellor) has in their ability to help patients. While self doubt has traditionally been seen as a negative attribute, considerable evidence suggests that professional self doubt among therapists, ...
Counselling Self Estimate Inventory (COSE)
Description The Counselling Self Estimate Inventory (COSE) is a 37-item self-report questionnaire designed to measure a clinician’s self-efficacy. It is appropriate for use with psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors, trainees in these disciplines, and other mental health clinicians engaged in therapy with clients. The COSE measures five areas of counselling...
Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS)
Description The Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS v1.1) is an 18-item self-report questionnaire designed to assess Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms in adults (18+). This scale is based on the World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview (2001), and the questions are consistent with DSM criteria, but reworded to b...
Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ-15)
Description The Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ-15) is a 15 question self-report scale that measures mindfulness with regards to thoughts, experiences, and actions in daily life (Baer, Carmody, & Hunsinger, 2012). The FFMQ-15 measures 5 subscales of mindfulness: Observing Describing Acting with Awareness Non-judgement Non-reactivity In clinical pra...
International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ)
Description The International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ) is an 18 question self-report measure focusing on the core features of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (CPTSD). It was developed to be consistent with the organizing principles of the ICD-11. The ITQ is designed for diagnosis and can discriminate PTSD from CPTSD by employing validated...
Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire – Believability (ATQ-B)
Description The Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire – Believability (ATQ-B-15) (Netemeyer et al., 2002) is a 15-item self-report measure designed to assess the degree of believability of cognitions associated with depression. The scale does not measure the frequency of unhelpful thoughts, but rather measures the extent to which the client believes the thoughts to ...
Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire (ACE-Q)
Description The Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire (ACE-Q) is a 10-item measure to quantify instances of adverse or traumatic experiences that the client has had before the age of 18. The ACE-Q checks for the client’s exposure to childhood psychological, physical, and sexual abuse as well as household dysfunction including domestic violence, substance ...
Valuing Questionnaire (VQ)
Description The Valuing Questionnaire (VQ: Smout et al. 2014) is a 10-item self-report scale designed to measure how consistently an individual has been living with their self-determined values and is particularly helpful when administered during a course of ACT. Values are personal principles someone has chosen to guide their behaviour. Articulation of self-defined ...
Compassion Motivation and Action Scales – Compassion (CMAS-other)
Description The Compassion Motivation and Action Scales (CMAS) encompass two dimensions assessing self-compassion (CMAS-self) and compassion to others (CMAS-other; Steindl et al., 2021). In clinical practice it can be helpful to use the CMAS as an aid for formulation, given that compassionate motivation has been found to be associated with many benefits for wellbeing...
Supervisory Styles Inventory (SSI)
Description The Supervisory Styles Inventory (SSI) is a 25 item scale which measures the interpersonal or relational aspects of supervisors as perceived by supervisees. The SSI is completed by a supervisee to rate their perceptions of their supervisor’s style based on three subscales: Attractive, Interpersonally Sensitive, and Task-Oriented. This scale can be u...
Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q)
Description The Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q) is a 25-item self-report measure of social camouflaging behaviours for individuals of age 16 and above. It is used to identify individuals who compensate for or mask autistic characteristics during social interactions and who might not immediately present with autistic traits due to their ability ...
Compassion Motivation and Action Scales – Self-Compassion (CMAS-self)
Description The Compassion Motivation and Action Scales (CMAS) encompass two dimensions assessing self-compassion (CMAS-self) and compassion to others (CMAS-other). This is the CMAS-self, which is an 18-item self-report measure designed to assess compassion for oneself (Steindl et al., 2021). The CMAS-self has three subscales: self-compassion intention – measuring ...
Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation – 60-item Adolescent version (MID-60-A)
Description The Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation 60-item – Adolescent version (MID-60-A) is a screening tool for adolescents (16-19 years) that assesses dissociative symptoms and experiences specific to DSM-5-TR dissociative disorders. It also captures dissociative experiences, PTSD and somatic symptoms, and phenomena closely related to dissociation s...
Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI)
Description The Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI; Newman et al., 1996) is a 25-item self-report measure to determine perceived tinnitus handicap severity. The THI is a useful measure for determining the efficacy of psychological treatment for tinnitus (Zeman et al., 2011). The THI comprises 25 items grouped into three subscales: Functional: this deals with limita...
Mindfulness-Based Self Efficacy Scale – Revised (MSES-R)
Description The Mindfulness-based Self-Efficacy Scale – Revised (MSES-R) is a 22-item self-report scale for adults and adolescents (age 16+) designed to measure levels of self-efficacy in overcoming daily stressors. The MSES-R was developed with a focus on measuring skills that people felt improved in their lives as a consequence of mindfulness practice. It was...
McLean Screening Instrument for BPD (MSI-BPD)
Description The MSI-BPD is a 10-item self-report instrument used to screen for borderline personality disorder (BPD; Zanarini et al., 2003) in youth (15 years of age or greater; Chanen et al., 2008; Noblin et al., 2013; van Alebeek et al., 2017) or adults. Screening for BPD is an important consideration given it is a significant public health problem that is unde...
Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS)
Description The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS; Watson et al., 1988) is a 20-item self- report measure to assess positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA). PA is associated with pleasurable engagement with the environment, whereas NA reflects a dimension of general distress summarising a variety of negative states such as anger, guilt, or anxiet...
International Trauma Questionnaire – Child and Adolescent Version (ITQ-CA)
Description The International Trauma Questionnaire – Children and Adolescent Version (ITQ-CA) is a 22 item self-report measure focusing on the core features of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (CPTSD) in children and adolescents (7 – 17 years old). It was developed to be consistent with the organising principles of the ICD-11 and is the ...
Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-10)
Description The Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-10) is a brief 10-item version of the full version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-42). The DASS-10 can determine the overall level of distress as well as provides subscale scores for two symptom clusters: Depression and Anxiety/Stress The scale was designed to be used for routine outcome monitori...
Obsessional Compulsive Inventory – Revised (OCI-R)
Description The Obsessive Compulsive Inventory-Revised (OCI-R) (Foa et al., 2002) is an 18-item self-report questionnaire and measures OCD symptoms across 6 subscales including washing, checking, neutralising, obsessing, ordering and hoarding. The scale is suitable for use with adults and adolescents (16 years +; Piqueras et al., 2009). Although initially develop...