CBT Cognitive Distortions
Ten recurrent cognitive distortions from cognitive behavioural therapy, for tagging biased appraisals in text.
Criteria-Based Content Analysis (CBCA)
The 19 content criteria of Statement Validity Assessment for judging whether an account shows features characteristic of truthful, experience-based statements.
Ekman's Basic Emotions
Paul Ekman's six basic, cross-culturally recognized emotions for tagging affective content in text.
Empathic Communication Coding System (ECCS)
Bylund & Makoul's system for coding patient-created empathic opportunities and the empathy level (0-6) of the provider's response.
Gottschalk-Gleser Depression Scale
Clause-level content analysis of depressive themes in speech across seven subscales, with perspective-based weighting.
NICHD Investigative Interview Protocol — Prompt Types
The NICHD scheme for classifying an investigative interviewer's utterances by how much they shape the child's response — from open invitations to suggestive prompts.
OPTION — Observing Patient Involvement in Decision Making
Elwyn et al.'s OPTION scale for observing the clinician behaviours that involve patients in shared decision making.
Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions
Robert Plutchik's eight primary emotions, arranged as four opposing pairs, for tagging emotional content in text.
SANS: Alogia Subscale
The Alogia (poverty of thought) subscale of Andreasen's SANS, for tagging impoverished speech in interview transcripts.
SAPS: Positive Formal Thought Disorder Subscale
The Positive Formal Thought Disorder subscale of Andreasen's SAPS, for tagging disorganized speech in interview transcripts.
Scale for the Assessment of Thought, Language and Communication (TLC)
Andreasen's glossary of operationally defined disorders of thought, language, and communication, rated from interview speech.
Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS)
Classic multi-symptom clinician rating of psychopathology, recast for tagging symptom evidence in interview speech.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7)
Seven-item self-report screen for generalized-anxiety severity, coded as reported evidence.
Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A)
Clinician-rated anxiety severity scale across psychic and somatic domains, coded as reported evidence.
Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS-17)
Clinician-rated depression severity scale; content-localizable items coded as reported evidence.
IRF/IRE Classroom Discourse
The three-move Initiation-Response-Feedback exchange structure for annotating classroom talk.
Labov & Waletzky Narrative Structure
Labov and Waletzky's six structural components of oral narrative for annotating how a story is told.
Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS)
Ten-item clinician rating of depressive symptom severity, sensitive to change, for tagging depressive features in interview speech.
Motivational Interviewing Skill Code (MISC 2.x) — Client Language
The MISC client-language codes for classifying a client's utterances as change talk, sustain talk, or follow/neutral relative to a target behavior change.
Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity (MITI 4.2.1) — Behavior Counts
The MITI behavior counts for coding a clinician's utterances in a motivational interviewing session (reflections, questions, MI-consistent and MI-inconsistent behaviors).
Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9)
Nine-item self-report screen for depressive-symptom severity, coded as reported evidence.
Searle's Speech Act Taxonomy
John Searle's five classes of illocutionary act for tagging what an utterance does in discourse.
Toulmin Model of Argumentation
Stephen Toulmin's six functional elements of an argument for annotating the structure of reasoning in text.
Verona Coding Definitions of Emotional Sequences (VR-CoDES)
The Verona consensus system for coding patient emotional cues and concerns and the way providers respond to them in clinical consultations.