What is validated
The check-ins are published instruments reproduced under their authors’ terms and scored exactly as published: PHQ-9, GAD-7, WHO-5, PC-PTSD-5, PCL-5, AUDIT, DASS-21, K10, AAQ-II, ASRS v1.1, SWLS, and BRS. Their psychometrics are their authors’, and each result page cites them.
What is adapted
Bull’s Eye adapts the structure of the Bull’s Eye Values Survey (Lundgren, Luoma, Dahl, Strosahl & Melin, 2012) but replaces its four life domains with the person’s own seven values, so it cannot borrow the original’s validation. The Matrix follows Polk and Schoendorff’s ACT Matrix as a card sort. Flex is a 36-item sort written for this site across ACT’s six processes, with face validity and no norms. What Matters is a values card sort with no psychometric claims.
What has not been tested
The Toolkit as a whole, the four card-based tools, and the language-model-written reports have no outcome evidence. We say “built on” evidence-based methods and never “shown to.”
What we intend to learn
Usage: completion rates, return rates, and how often check-ins are repeated. Feasibility with clinicians: whether the share page and clinician view get used, and what clinicians say about them. Signal: whether repeated Bull’s Eye scores and PHQ-9 and GAD-7 trends move over weeks for people who use the tools between sessions. The first step is a small pilot with a handful of clinicians and their consenting clients. If you are a clinician or researcher who wants to help run one, reply to any email from the site.
Data for research
Nothing here is used for research without a separate, explicit consent. Any future study would use de-identified data and its own consent process, described on this page before it starts.