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The CLINICAL INDEX OF STRESS is "normed," not "standardized." It is meant to glean as much clinical information as possible, not exclude it. It can be used for patients at any level of care and of any mental OR chronological age: infants, children, adolescents, adults, and geriatrics. Takes about 20 - 30 minutes to administer.

It uses physical symptoms, life events, or endorsable behaviors to infer psychological states.

It allows for entry of a clinical summary and check off of symptoms:

1. May be administered by a clinician as an interview
2. It may be given on a computer to the patient AND/OR informant
3. It may be used to review a clinical record.
4. It allows a clinician to quantify a psychiatric record in terms of severity of illness.

The CLINICAL INDEX OF STRESS automatically provides the following:

 1. A comparative statement of the Total Score for norms (N=1,096) based on level of care

 2. Graphically depicts T-scores and elevations on 8 indexes:

      Somatic, Anxiety, Aggression, Depression,Impulse, Paranoia, Escape, and Abuse

 3. Lists selected physical ailments/history endorsed

 4. Flags critical items

 5. Includes its own suicidal constellation which is based on scores two standard deviations above the means on the following indexes:

      Aggression, Depression, and Escape 

 6. Suggests diagnostic implications for selected lab data; the "Biochemical Index" points to areas of diagnosis:

      behavioral dyscontrol, depression/agitated states, and thought/dementia/substance-induced disorders

 7. Sorts through preselected symptoms for DSM-IV-TR™ diagnoses with DSM-IV-TR™ codes

 8. Identifies selected indications for use of psychotropic medications

 9. Lists selected nonambulatory care indicators endorsed

10. Plots an automatically generated GAF (AutoGenerated GAF) by Level of Care (Urban v. Rural settings)

The heuristic aspects of the CLINICAL INDEX OF STRESS are broad (see Biochemical Index example below). It lends itself to basic and applied clinical research. Though it has its own suicidal constellation (early validation has been established; continued validation is ongoing), efforts are underway to develop a homicidal constellation.

Homicidal Constellation Research

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System Requirements: PC (at least a Pentium III, Celeron, or comparable), Microsoft® Windows XP and Microsoft® Access 2003 (ideally), 12 MB memory to run program, 121 MB of hard disk space, CD ROM drive, VGA or higher resolution monitor, & a pointing device (e.g., mouse). Note: We have not tested this software under Windows Me/Millinneum Edition. If you try it under other software, e.g., Microsoft® Office 2000 or earlier, it may want to convert the Demonstration or Full Program database. You can try the options it gives you and ignore any error messages.
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Acknowledgements

"Pentinum" and "Celeron" are registered trademark of the Intel Corporation.
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me/Millinneum Edition, Windows XP and Microsoft® Access (a component of Microsoft® Office/Microsoft® Office 2000) are registered trademarks of the Microsoft® Corporation.
The text of the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) Scale used in the Automated GAF ("AutoGAF") and the AutoGenerated GAF and the MultiAxial Diagnoses used throughout the Clinical Index System are reprinted with permission from the

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Text Revised Edition, Copyright 2000 American Psychiatric Association. All rights reserved.

We have licensing and royalty agreements with the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. (APPI), and use Microsoft Corporation products with recognition.

Under our licensing and royalty agreement with the APA and APPI, we submit a fee for each copy of our product sold, and pay a nominal per annum royalty fee for each end-user of the product. This cost is billed to the purchaser of the software yearly based on the number of authorized clinicians using the software.

DSM and DSM-IV-TR are registered trademarks of the American Psychiatric Association, and are used with permission herein. These agreements are not to be construed as sponsorship, endorsement or approval of our products by the APA or APPI. The product is not affiliated with, connected, or associated with the APA or APPI.

Full Continuum's software serves as a clinical aid. Full Continuum is not, by extension, assessing, planning the care, treating, prescribing, or diagnosing your patients. Diagnosis and treatment of individuals lies within the purvue of licensed clinicians and their clients. The licensed purchaser must maintain HIPAA compliance, assure confidentiality, and test security.

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