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100+ free clinical assessments. PHQ-9, GAD-7, PCL-5, and more.

Validated assessments for therapists across 13 clinical categories — auto-scored with severity bands and trend tracking built in. Free on every plan.

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The Clinical Library.
100+ instruments by category.

100+ validated assessments plus a configurable Diary Card for daily behavioral tracking — both on every plan, both piped into your EHR.

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Clinical Library

100+ validated instruments across 13 clinical categories. Auto-scored with severity bands. PHQ-9, GAD-7, PCL-5, AUDIT, and more.

Included Free

Diary Cards

A configurable daily-tracking card — emotions, urges, behaviors, sleep, medication, and more. Every section toggleable. See behavioral tracking →

  • PHQ-9
  • PHQ-2
  • QIDS-SR16
  • GDS
  • ZSDS
  • & more
  • GAD-7
  • GAD-2
  • PSWQ
  • OASIS
  • & more
PTSD & Trauma
  • PCL-5
  • PC-PTSD-5
  • ACE
  • DES-II
  • & more
OCD & Related
  • OCI-R
  • FOCI
  • OCI-12
  • OCI-4
  • & more
Suicide & Safety
  • C-SSRS Screener
  • SBQ-R
  • & more
Substance Use
  • AUDIT
  • AUDIT-C
  • NIDA Quick Screen
  • CRAFFT
  • & more
Mood & Bipolar
  • MDQ
  • ASRM
  • DASS-21
  • & more
ADHD
  • ASRS v1.1
  • ASRS v2.0
  • SWAN
  • & more
Child & Adolescent
  • PHQ-A
  • SCARED-5
  • PSC
  • Y-PSC
  • PSWQ-C
  • & more
Relationships & Couples
  • CSI-4
  • CSI-16
  • CSI-32
  • & more
Stress, Sleep & Wellbeing
  • PSS
  • K6
  • CORE-10
  • ISI
  • ProQOL 5
  • & more
Eating Disorders
  • EDDS
  • EDQOL
  • & more
Daily Behavioral Tracking

Validated assessments capture symptom severity at a point in time. The configurable Diary Card captures the day-to-day — emotions, urges, behaviors, sleep, medication, and skill use — between sessions.

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01 · Assign

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Pick from 100+ validated instruments or your own. Assign to one client or the whole caseload.

PHQ-9 · 8 clients
02 · Complete

Client fills on phone

PWA portal — no app store. Push reminders nudge them gently. Submissions save offline and sync.

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03 · Score

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Validated scoring rules. Severity bands applied. A PHQ-9 of 14 lights up as Moderate in real time.

PHQ-9 = 14 · Moderate
04 · Track

Trends + alerts

Watch scores move across bands. Get flagged on sudden shifts, milestones, and safety concerns.

↓ 43% over 8 weeks

Scoring, interpretation, and clinical best practices.

Deep-dive guides for the most widely used clinical assessments. Severity cutoffs, psychometric properties, and practical guidance for outcome-driven therapy.

Depression

PHQ-9

Patient Health Questionnaire-9. The gold standard for depression screening and severity tracking. 5 severity bands, clinical cutoff at 10.

Minimal 0–4 Mild 5–9 Moderate 10–14 Mod-Severe 15–19 Severe 20–27
Read the guide
OCD

Y-BOCS

Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale. The standard measure of OCD symptom severity — scored 0–40 across five severity bands.

Read the guide
Bipolar

MDQ

Mood Disorder Questionnaire. A brief screen for bipolar spectrum disorder based on a lifetime history of manic and hypomanic symptoms.

Read the guide
Depression

GDS

Geriatric Depression Scale. Depression screening for older adults in a simple yes/no format; the GDS-15 is scored 0–15.

Read the guide
Depression

CES-D

Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale. A 20-item measure of depressive symptoms with the well-known 16-point cutoff.

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Anxiety

PSWQ

Penn State Worry Questionnaire. The most widely used measure of trait worry; 16 items scored from 16 to 80.

Read the guide
Well-being

WHO-5

WHO-5 Well-Being Index. A 5-item measure of psychological well-being scored 0–100 that also serves as a depression screen.

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ADHD

ASRS v1.1

Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale. A WHO-developed screener; the six-item Part A flags symptoms consistent with adult ADHD.

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Suicide risk

C-SSRS

Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale. The most widely used measure of suicidal ideation and behavior, with screener and full versions.

Read the guide
Depression

BDI-II

Beck Depression Inventory. A copyrighted depression measure — see its overview plus free, validated alternatives like the PHQ-9.

Read the guide
Perinatal

EPDS

Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. The standard perinatal depression screen — overview, scoring, and free alternatives.

Read the guide
Anxiety

BAI

Beck Anxiety Inventory. A copyrighted anxiety measure — see its overview plus free, validated alternatives like the GAD-7.

Read the guide
Anxiety

GAD-7

Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale. Brief, reliable anxiety severity measure. Also screens for panic, social anxiety, and PTSD.

Minimal 0–4 Mild 5–9 Moderate 10–14 Severe 15–21
Read the guide
Multi-domain

DASS-21

Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales. Three validated subscales in one 21-item instrument. Efficient for comorbid presentations.

Normal Mild Moderate Severe Ext. Severe
Read the guide
PTSD & Trauma

PCL-5

PTSD Checklist for DSM-5. 20 items across 4 symptom clusters. Supports provisional diagnosis and tracks treatment response.

Subthreshold 0–30 Probable 31–32 Higher symptoms 33+
Read the guide
DBT & Skills

DBT Diary Card

Daily self-monitoring for emotions, urges, target behaviors, and DBT skill use. Essential for dialectical behavior therapy.

0 · None 1–2 · Low 3 · Medium 4 · High 5 · Very high
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Stress

PSS-10

Perceived Stress Scale. 10 items measuring how unpredictable and overloaded life has felt over the past month. The standard measure of perceived stress.

Low 0–13 Moderate 14–26 High 27–40
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Self-Esteem

Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale

RSES. 10 items measuring global self-worth — the standard self-esteem measure for over fifty years. Scored 0–30; higher reflects greater self-esteem.

Low 0–14 Normal 15–25 High 26–30
Read the guide
Substance Use

AUDIT-C

Alcohol Use Screen. The 3 consumption questions from the WHO AUDIT. Screens for hazardous drinking — positive at 4+ for men, 3+ for women.

Lower 0–3 Hazardous 4–7 High 8–12
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Sleep

Insomnia Severity Index

The ISI. 7 items measuring the severity and daytime impact of insomnia — the standard brief insomnia measure. Scored 0–28.

None 0–7 Subthreshold 8–14 Moderate 15–21 Severe 22–28
Read the guide

100+ validated assessments. Plus a configurable Diary Card.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. All 100+ assessments included in Theracharts use freely licensed validated measures. They're available on every plan including the Free plan.

Assessments span 13 clinical categories: depression, anxiety, PTSD & trauma, OCD & related, suicide & safety, substance use, mood & bipolar, ADHD, child & adolescent, relationships & couples, stress/sleep/wellbeing, eating disorders, and custom assessments.

Yes. Every assessment is automatically scored when completed. Results include severity band interpretation, visual trend charts across sessions, and clinical alerts for significant score changes.

Theracharts is designed to complement your EHR, not replace it. You can generate clinical updates ready to paste into your EHR's note or chart fields, and export raw assessment data for your own analysis.