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Resources
Below are the resources I use frequently during my sessions with patients. Feel free to download or screenshot any for future use!
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Please note:
Things get rough, and you should reach out to me if you are experiencing a crisis. We can discuss a plan to manage between our sessions. If you are experiencing significant distress and can't wait to be seen, below is a list of resources you can contact for immediate help in an emergency crisis.
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Emergency: 911
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Suicide Hotline: 988
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Crisis Textline: 741741
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Trevor Project Hotline: (866) 488-7386
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Trevor Project Textline: (Text "Start" to) 678678
Depression Screening
Below is the PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questionnaire-9), a widely used, brief self-report tool for screening, diagnosing, and monitoring the severity of depression, or Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)
Using resources like this tool for insights into your health may be helpful initially, but your self-scoring should not replace a professional medical diagnosis.
Over the last two weeks, how often have you been bothered by any of the following problems?
Not at all
1. Little interest or pleasure in doing things
0
2. Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless
0
3. Trouble falling asleep or staying asleep, or sleeping too much
0
4. Feeling tired or having little energy
0
5. Poor appetite or overeating
0
6. Feeling about yourself, feeling that you are a failure, or have let yourself or your family down
0
7. Trouble concentrating on thing, such as reading the newspaper or watching television
0
8. Moving or speaking so slowly that other people could have noticed? Or the opposite: being so fidgety or restless that you have been moving around a lot more than usual
0
9. Thoughts that you would be better off dead or of hurting yourself in some way
0
Total Score (add columns)
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Several days
More than half the days
1
2
1
2
1
2
1
2
1
2
1
2
1
2
1
2
1
2
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+
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Nearly every day
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
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Depression Severity
Minimal Depression
Mild Depression
Moderate Depression
Moderately Severe Depression
Severe Depression
Total Score
0–4
5–9
10–14
15–19
20–27
Anxiety Screening
Below is the GAD-7 (Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale), a widely used, brief self-report tool for screening, diagnosing, and monitoring the severity of anxiety, or Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Using resources like this tool for insights into your health may be helpful initially, but your self-scoring should not replace a professional medical diagnosis.
During the last two weeks, how often have you been bothered by the following problems?
Not at all
1. Feeling nervous, anxious, or on edge
2. Not being able to stop or control worrying
3. Worrying too much about different things
4. Trouble relaxing
5. Being so restless that it is hard to sit still
6. Becoming easily annoyed or irritable
7. Feeling afraid as if something awful might happen
Total Score (add columns)
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
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+
Several days
More than half the days
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
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+
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
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+
Nearly every day
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
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Depression Severity
Minimal Anxiety
Mild Anxiety
Moderate Anxiety
Severe Anxiety
Total Score
0–4
5–9
10–14
15–21
Wheel of Emotions
The Wheel of Emotions resource helps label feelings, understand triggers, and improve self-awareness and communication. To use the Wheel of Emotions, start at the center with a broad feeling you have, like "Sad", and move outward to find more specific words, like "Lonely" or "Disappointed". Then, identify further nuanced emotions in the outer ring, such as "Forsaken" or "Resentful".
Wheel of Power & Control
The Wheel of Power & Control diagram shows tactics that abusive partners use to keep survivors in a relationship. The inside of the wheel makes up subtle, continual abusive behaviors over time, while the outer ring represents physical and/or sexual violence. Abusive actions like those depicted in the outer ring reinforce the regular use of other, more subtle methods of abuse found in the inner ring.
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