Primary Care Medicine
Treatment Engagement Profile ~ Primary Care
~ Primary Care Positive Influence ~ Medication Tracker
~ Primary Care Positive Influence ~ Medication Tracker
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Primary Care Medicine
Our primary care products are designed to serve four major functions. First, Dashometrics' Primary Care products are designed to help you attract, engage and influence your patients. At the treatment engagement level we help providers understand the specific barriers to treatment for each individual patient. Then we help patients better identify and express their treatment goals. Finally, we help providers develop motivating and effective influence strategies that bypass patient’s common resistance to direct advice-giving. |
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Secondly, our products are designed to help patients assume more personal responsibility for their health and wellness. This means they have better ability to self-intervene with lower level health issues, they maintain healthier lifestyles and they utilize health care resources more rationally and responsibly.
Finally, our products are designed to help providers better assess, understand and intervene in issues that involve emotional health. Therefore, in this section we include products that involve anxiety, depression and risk of self-harm.
Third, our products are designed to help providers better assess, understand and intervene in issues that involve emotional health. Therefore, in this section, we include products that involve anxiety, depression and risk of self-harm.
Finally, just as we are trying to help medical providers better understand their patients internally (through awareness of their mood conditions), we also want to help providers better understand their patients externally through increased awareness of the social circumstances of their patient’s lives.
Finally, our products are designed to help providers better assess, understand and intervene in issues that involve emotional health. Therefore, in this section we include products that involve anxiety, depression and risk of self-harm.
Third, our products are designed to help providers better assess, understand and intervene in issues that involve emotional health. Therefore, in this section, we include products that involve anxiety, depression and risk of self-harm.
Finally, just as we are trying to help medical providers better understand their patients internally (through awareness of their mood conditions), we also want to help providers better understand their patients externally through increased awareness of the social circumstances of their patient’s lives.
Treatment Engagement & Influence |
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Treatment Engagement
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The Treatment Engagement Profile – Primary Care is designed to look at barriers to treatment so that providers can better understand their patient’s treatment avoidance issues and thereby increase client retention and improve treatment outcomes.
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Patient Influence-1,
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The Patient Influence - 1 is a product designed to help providers effectively influence their patients to take action on improving their health. This is a product that self-motivated providers may use on their own, but it will be especially helpful for clinics to use this as a tool for providers to increase self-awareness in this area and adapt a wider array of influence strategies. Our belief is that the improvement of treatment influence strategies will almost always result in better treatment outcomes.
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Patient Influence-1
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The Patient Influence -1 Interpretation Guide - Primary Care provides a detailed look at the logic and reasoning behind different influence strategies.
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Therapy Engagement
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Therapy Engagement Profile is a tool to help primary care providers convert mental health referrals. This is done by learning about their patient’s attitudes about mental health treatment and other barriers that stand in the way of their mental health treatment.
Our experience is that client/patients often fail to follow through on mental health referrals. Yet, many of the reasons are predictable and can be dealt with in advance if we know what the specific issues or barriers are. |
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Increasing Patient Responsibility |
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Primary Care-1 |
The Primary Care-1 is a product designed to 1) Help clients take responsibility for defining the purpose of their visit and the outcome they want to achieve and 2) Help them take responsibility for doing the things they need to do to achieve such an outcome.
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Primary Care-2
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The purpose of the Primary Care-2 is to help patients use health care resources more rationally. At one level this means reducing unnecessary usage through improved self-intervention and seeking the appropriate level of care when medical resources are used. It also means improving their natural disease resistance, through getting them to look at the variables of sleep, rest, exercise and diet.
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Primary Care-3
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The Primary Care-3 is designed to rationalize the use of medications and increase patient self-responsibility for their usage of medications. This means they understand what they are taking, why they are taking it, what the alternatives are and what the costs and benefits are. It also means they understand it is their responsibility to communicate their needs to their providers. Last, but not least, it helps providers and patients understand and communicate about how reliable the patient is about taking medications.
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Pain Spectrum
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The Pain Spectrum-1 is an instrument to help provider and patient better understand the sources of pain and the various operants which either increase or decrease the experience of pain. It is also designed to increase patient responsibility for the management of their pain, including helping them better identify and communicate necessary information to their providers.
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Sleep Assessment-1
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The Sleep Assessment-1 looks at the various factors that go into determining the quality of sleep and restoration, including, but not limited to, so called sleep hygiene issues. Sleep disruption is both cause and effect of many medical conditions. It is a complicated issue, yet our experience tells us that for many therapy clients or medical patients, there are a lot of voluntary choices that contribute to the difficulty.
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Helping Screen Harm to Self or Others |
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Self-Harm-1
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The Self Harm-1 is a product meant to be used where there is reason to believe there is risk for suicide. It also attempts to give some intervention guidance, though it should be stressed that the suggestive ideas on this list should not be considered all-inclusive.
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Self Harm -1
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The Self Harm-1 Interpretation Guide provides important information and qualifications about the use of Self Harm-1. While our experience is that many client/patients at elevated risk of suicide will self-disclose this propensity, it should not be assumed that all will do so. Thus, providers should always exercise other forms of vigilance in this area for more guarded clients. We also encourage providers to take the extra time needed to get additional training in assessing and managing suicide risk. We especially encourage providers to look at the research dealing with the costs and benefits of no-harm contracts.
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Safety Assessor-1
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The Safety Assessor-1 is a product that is meant to screen a certain type of violence risk, namely someone willing to report those tendencies on a self-report form in direct response to risk-probing questions. As long as it is understood there are some respondents who will NOT reveal their violent propensities, our experience is that some will and that it is worth the effort to screen for them.
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Safety Assessor-1
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The Safety Assessor-1 Interpretation Guide is the interpretive instrument to accompany the Safety Assessor-1. This product will also give additional details about its benefits and limitations.
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Helping Diagnose and Manage Mood Conditions |
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Emotional Dashboard-8
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The Emotional Dashboard-8 is Dashometric’s premier and truly revolutionary product that holistically looks at all of the mood, mental and physiological states that most disrupt human functioning and create the most discomfort. This product will help build the internal awareness of all who use it and their personal responsibility for taking action on those things that cause pain and negative mood. Providers who use this form frequently will also find the open questions have very high diagnostic value for determining level of personal responsibility and what pre-existing strengths provider and respondent can build off of.
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Emotional Dashboard-8
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The Emotional Dashboard-8 Stage 2 is a tool for more advanced respondents to use so that they can begin to differentiate external stimulus to mood conditions (events and circumstances) from internal stimulus (thoughts and interpretations).
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Emotional Dashboard-8
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The Emotional Dashboard-8 Mood Management is a powerful tool for helping provider and respondent understand 1) the respondent’s long-term mood history 2) how respondents subjectively experience the different negative mood conditions in terms of difficulty and 3) the degree to which the stimulus structure for each one is more internal or external.
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Anxiety Spectrum-1
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The Anxiety Spectrum-1 is the strongest brief assessment tool for the measurement and monitoring of anxiety there is. Its first section conforms to the DSM-ICD diagnostic criteria. The response items are worded carefully to allow anxiety to be scaled for autonomic intensity and to be differentiated from depression. The second section allows “red-flagging” specific sub-forms of anxiety such as agoraphobia and PTSD that can be further assessed and incorporated into treatment. This instrumental also comes with an interpretation guide.
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Anxiety Spectrum-1
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The Anxiety Spctrum-1 Supplement allows respondents and providers to look for and identify longer term anxiety stimulating conditions and circumstances in their life. By understanding their longer term anxiety structure they will “bend their curve” downward so that their anxiety has a progressively lower “baseline”. With a lower baseline, the shorter term anxiety events will feel less de-stabilizing and intense. It will also help clients better understand anxiety and in doing so reduce their “secondary” anxiety – anxiety about anxiety.
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Anxiety Spectrum-1
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The Anxiety Spectrum-1 Interpretation Guide gives critically useful information about interpreting the Anxiety Spectrum-1. Total scores on anxiety measuring instruments do not always establish clinical relevance – there are a number of considerations that must be taken into account, and our interpretation guide provides a structure for doing so. It also helps with the all-important differentiation of symptoms between anxiety and depression, which are co-morbid so often they can sometimes be confusing.
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Depression Spectrum-1
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The Depression Spectrum-1 provides the most complete single panel assessment of depression on the market today. The first section is DSM-ICD conforming and its questions are meant to help providers discriminate between anxiety and depression. One part of the second section allows a brief assessment of client’s use of agency/personal power and whether they exhibit signs of learned helplessness. The other part of the second section allows a brief assessment of the client’s use of, or alienation from, social help and resources.
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Depression Spectrum-1
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The Depression Spectrum-1 Interpretation Guide provides a means by which to make the total scores and individual responses of the Depression Spectrum-1 more relevant. With ever more widespread usage of total score brief assessments used to screen for depression and anxiety, we find it is critically important to have an informed basis for interpretation, as raw scores alone have a number of critical limitations which are discussed more fully in our interpretation guides.
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Life Simplifier-1
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Life Simplifier-1 is a product that is almost universally beneficial, but is especially useful for reducing anxiety and should be used with any client that has higher anxiety. It is a rare client who cannot reduce their baseline of anxiety at least somewhat by better understanding how and where they are taking on too much in their life. This product creates a simple and easy to use structure to simplify life and live more effectively.
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Understanding the Social Context of Patients |
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Primary Care-4
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Under the bio-psycho-social model of health we know that patient’s social environments are either helping or hurting their physical and emotional health. Primary Care-4 seeks to identify which it is and why. While some of the social-environmental problems may be beyond the scope of primary care medicine, we believe some of them are within it. We are especially looking to help providers and patients become aware of how social environments are affecting them (patients) and where common-sense changes could help.
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Social Life Assessment
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The Social Life Assessment - Part 1 looks at the direct impact that specific people have on a client or patient's negative mood conditions (anger, anxiety, confusion, depression/sadness and guilt). This product also comes with an interpretation guide. Our experience is that this instrument provides powerful, spontaneous insight that almost always provides motivation to increase boundary awareness and usage. It allows provider and patient to both identify specific people and specific emotions that are especially problematic for them.
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Family Communication
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Family Communication Assessment-1 is a tool that focuses on system versus individual functioning. This tool can be used in a number of contexts, but is especially useful as a tool to assess and improve communication within family systems.
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Helping Junior Patients |
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Anxiety-1 |
Anxiety -1 is an interactive tool to assess areas that may be provoking situational or long term anxiety, as well as identifying and grounding where that anxiety lives in ones body. This is an essential feature for teaching youth how to identify and feel through anxiety, rather than ignoring it or building avoidance techniques.
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Anxiety-2
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Anxiety-2 utilizes the visuals of color and space to address current state symptoms of anxiety. It serves as a talking point with or without using words, and also looks to the origin of the anxiety, as well as skills that could be used to lessen the severity of the symptoms.
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Communicating
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Communicating Need breaks down the emotion from the need and how to communicate feelings and needs in a way that others can process and understand. This is an especially helpful tool for youth who struggle with identifying feelings and finding ways to communicate them in a way that brings them closer to having their needs met.
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Parental Modeling-1
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Parental Modeling-1 is a tool that can be helpful for parents who are feeling stuck with their child. It is a helpful tool in coaching a parent in ways to be increasingly effective with their child’s emotional regulation via modeling and intention.
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Emotional Needs
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Emotional Needs and Requests is a tool to use with both the youth and parent/guardian. It seeks to explore the nature of the youths emotional needs and requests, as well as the parent/guardians ability to meet these unique needs. It serves to shed light on how the youth is asking for their needs to be met, and creates a context for healthy communication of needs for both parties.
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How I Feel
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How I Feel is a versatile tool to become aware of ones current emotional state, as well as thinking about what might be contributing to ones current emotions. It also begins the work of looking at ways the youth can take control and accountability for their emotions.
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