Features & Benefits

The single most important thing to understand about Dashometrics products is that they actually help you know what to do. Either their results are self-explanatory, or they come with simple and brief intervention or interpretation guides. No more looking at assessment results and going, “Now what?”
 
While there are a great many assessment tools available in the field of mental health, their usefulness is often limited due to the fact they don’t tell users what to do with the results. This is where therapists, primary care doctors, teachers, school administrators, human resources professionals and public safety officials so often get stuck. It's not the diagnosis or result per se that is useful; it is using the information to effectively intervene to help others. We should also add that many of these assessment products are expensive, time consuming and require specialists to administer, score and interpret.

Dashometrics products, by comparison, are brief (almost always a single page), affordable and relevant to our user’s needs. They are usually both diagnostic and solution-suggestive at the same time. They are immediate and can be used in the moment. They are easy to use and interpret. They do not require third party specialists. Most importantly, they help you know what to do with the results.

Dashometrics products are simple and brief

Dashometrics products are designed to be simple to use and administer for all members of our user base – clinicians, therapists, primary care doctors, teachers, school administrators and counselors, human resources professionals and public safety officials. Where needed, our products include brief interpretation and intervention guides. The vast majority of our products are one single page or panel. As we said above, our products do not require third party experts to administer, score or interpret.

Our simple to understand interpretation and intervention guides will help you understand both overall response “profiles” and the meaning of single item responses.

Dashometrics products are affordable and accessible

Our products will do the most good if they are widely used. They are priced accordingly. Our licensed users can digitally retrieve them almost anywhere. Our annual subscriptions allow unlimited reproduction. We have organized our products into packages or suites that fit the needs of our different customers. And for those that want to, they can license our entire library of over 50 brief assessments.

Dashometrics products are designed to be relevant and mainstream 

Dashometrics products are designed to be relevant to mainstream needs of the parties that our users serve. Almost everyone must deal with issues of anger, anxiety, depression and relationship distress. And likewise, almost everyone wants practical tools to help them feel better, function better and improve their relationships and social life.  This is true regardless of what someone’s mental health diagnosis is, and is also true regardless of their functioning level. Our products are designed to help people with the things they most want help with.

Dashometrics products are therapeutic and solution suggestive 

Dashometrics products are designed not only to diagnose but to be therapeutic as well. This means that just the act of using them will also help reform thoughts, create a sense of personal power and responsibility, increase insight and suggest solutions to problems.  Not only do our products suggest solutions to our customers, they suggest solutions to the respondent’s themselves. The change process then becomes more powerful because it is based on the respondent’s own ideas!

For more specific comments on how our products can change the process of helping others, please see the section on “The Psychology Behind Our Likert-Scale Products”

Dashometrics products are not tied to any single personality theory or therapy orientation

Dashometrics products are compatible with any therapy orientation. And as stated above, they can be useful to any respondent, regardless of their functioning status or DSM diagnosis.

Dashometrics products help create structure and outcome orientation in helping relationships

Helping relationships can sometimes “drift” or lack clarity. Our products provide structure for defining relevant issues, focus on the interventions that are most useful, and help create achievable outcomes that can be measured.

Dashometrics products improve the effectiveness of helping relationships by changing the nature of the process

Our products require active thought and engagement by respondents. Since they are solution suggestive to respondents as well, they are more likely to generate helpful ideas from the respondent’s themselves. This feels empowering and increases the respondent’s investment in the process and sense of responsibility for their own welfare. It also reduces the need for interventions that depend on persuasion and advice giving – strategies that are often inconsistent with treatment retention and that are prone to creating resistance. Our products can also provide tangible evidence of progress on an on-going basis – which further improves the morale and engagement of those we are trying to help.

Dashometrics products are research compatible

The vast majority of Dashometrics products are designed to be research compatible. We are in the process of a structuring a central research data base for participating users. In the meantime, our products can also be used for internal research, with consent to do so established through our licensing agreement

When appropriate, our products are also fully compatible with DSM-ICD diagnosis standards.