Interactive Self-Assessments
Please note that the information from these self-assessments is meant to be shared with your doctor or therapist, and is not a substitute for advice from these professionals.
Your seasonal pattern (AutoPIDS)
Symptoms of depression can be emotional, physical, or cognitive, and when they occur during the year can determine the choice of treatment. To what extent do you follow a seasonal time course?
Your circadian rhythm type (AutoMEQ)
How much of a lark or owl are you, compared with other people? When does your internal clock think you should be going to sleep? If you are considering light therapy, what would be the most effective time of day for you?
Your level of depression (AutoSIGH)
Whether or not you’re under treatment for depression, it’s important to track whether you improve, get worse, or stay the same. You should know your score and details about your symptom pattern, which can facilitate discussions with your doctor.
Assessment Tools Collection
For Professionals
What are we assessing?
CET’s clinical assessment tools were designed and produced by the Clinical Chronobiology and Biometrics Research groups at Columbia University’s Psychiatric Institute. The instruments provide state-of-the-art structured interviews for clinicians to rate the severity of depression (including atypical symptoms) and hypomania, and self-rating versions for patient to complete for clinician review.
In addition, there is a diagnostic interview for atypical depression keyed to DSM criteria for atypical features, and an up-to-date version of the Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire, which is also presented online on our website. For patients considering light therapy, there is a structured eye-screening chart for optometrists and ophthalmologists, and a sleep log to track the prescribed interval for light therapy. A comprehensive symptom survey, administered pre- and posttreatment, captures the scope of potential treatment-emergent adverse effects.
Self-
assessments
The patient completes a questionnaire and returns it for scoring and feedback discussion with the clinician, or self-scores with an interpretation guide.
Clinician assessments
Depression
Mania and hypomania
Chronotype and circadian phase
Download the collection
Our complete collection of 14 instruments, with instructions and overview, is available here as a PDF packet at $25.
The set is offered without charge for readers of our treatment manual, Chronotherapeutics for Affective Disorders which contains a coupon code on p. 114 (first edition, 2009) or p. 122 (second edition, 2013), for use at checkout.
The collection includes assessment instruments developed at the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, and assigned to the Center for Environmental Therapeutics for distribution to the profession.
Adding this to the cart and downloading the file constitutes acceptance of the End User License Agreement.
Mapi Research Trust Announces New Distribution Partnership with the Center for Environmental Therapeutics
The Mapi Research manages the licensing, distribution, and coordination and development of translations and electronic versions of the CET’s scales.
These instruments provide state-of-the-art structured interviews for clinicians to rate the severity of depression (including atypical symptoms) and hypomania, and self-rating versions for patients to complete for clinician review.
To access CET’s instruments, please visit: eprovide.mapi-trust.org.
