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Validated clinical and language coding instruments — domains, severity anchors, and curated agent skills included. Pick one and start annotating in minutes.

CBT · 1976

CBT Cognitive Distortions

Ten recurrent cognitive distortions from cognitive behavioural therapy, for tagging biased appraisals in text.

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Curated skills
cbtdepression
CBCA · 1989In progress

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.

forensiccredibility
Ekman's · 1992

Ekman's Basic Emotions

Paul Ekman's six basic, cross-culturally recognized emotions for tagging affective content in text.

Curated skills
emotionaffect
ECCS · 2005

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.

Curated skills
empathyhealthcare-communication
Gottscha · 1986

Gottschalk-Gleser Depression Scale

Clause-level content analysis of depressive themes in speech across seven subscales, with perspective-based weighting.

Curated skills
depressionmood
NICHD · 2007

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.

Curated skills
forensicchild-interview
OPTION · 2003

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.

Curated skills
shared-decision-makinghealthcare-communication
Plutchik · 1980

Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions

Robert Plutchik's eight primary emotions, arranged as four opposing pairs, for tagging emotional content in text.

Curated skills
emotionsentiment
SANS: · 1984

SANS: Alogia Subscale

The Alogia (poverty of thought) subscale of Andreasen's SANS, for tagging impoverished speech in interview transcripts.

Curated skills
psychosisnegative-symptoms
SAPS: · 1984

SAPS: Positive Formal Thought Disorder Subscale

The Positive Formal Thought Disorder subscale of Andreasen's SAPS, for tagging disorganized speech in interview transcripts.

Curated skills
psychosisthought-disorder
TLC · 1986

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.

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Curated skills
psychosisthought-disorder
BPRS · 1962

Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS)

Classic multi-symptom clinician rating of psychopathology, recast for tagging symptom evidence in interview speech.

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Curated skills
psychosismental-health
GAD-7 · 2006

Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7)

Seven-item self-report screen for generalized-anxiety severity, coded as reported evidence.

Curated skills
anxietyscreening
HAM-A · 1959

Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A)

Clinician-rated anxiety severity scale across psychic and somatic domains, coded as reported evidence.

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Curated skills
anxietymood
HDRS-17 · 1960

Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS-17)

Clinician-rated depression severity scale; content-localizable items coded as reported evidence.

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Curated skills
depressionmood
IRF/IRE · 1975

IRF/IRE Classroom Discourse

The three-move Initiation-Response-Feedback exchange structure for annotating classroom talk.

Curated skills
educationclassroom
Labov · 1972

Labov & Waletzky Narrative Structure

Labov and Waletzky's six structural components of oral narrative for annotating how a story is told.

Curated skills
narrativediscourse
MADRS · 1979

Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS)

Ten-item clinician rating of depressive symptom severity, sensitive to change, for tagging depressive features in interview speech.

+2
Curated skills
depressionmood
Motivati · 2008In progress

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-interviewingchange-talk
Motivati · 2014In progress

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).

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motivational-interviewingtherapy
PHQ-9 · 2001

Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9)

Nine-item self-report screen for depressive-symptom severity, coded as reported evidence.

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Curated skills
depressionscreening
Searle's · 1976

Searle's Speech Act Taxonomy

John Searle's five classes of illocutionary act for tagging what an utterance does in discourse.

Curated skills
pragmaticslinguistics
Toulmin · 1958

Toulmin Model of Argumentation

Stephen Toulmin's six functional elements of an argument for annotating the structure of reasoning in text.

Curated skills
argumentationrhetoric
VR-CoDES · 2011In progress

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.

empathyhealthcare-communication