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Identity & Life Transitions Self-Assessment

Two validated tools to help you reflect on adjustment difficulties and your sense of meaning and purpose.

These are self-screening tools only, not clinical diagnoses. Results are not saved or stored.

Before you begin

Please think of a specific stressor or difficult life event you are currently experiencing or have recently experienced (e.g. job loss, relationship breakdown, major life change, bereavement, health diagnosis).

Thinking about that stressor, please indicate how often the following have applied to you over the past 2 weeks:

1 = Not at all2 = Rarely3 = Sometimes4 = Often

1I think a lot about the stressor.

2I feel that I cannot cope with the stressor.

3I keep having thoughts about the stressor even though I don't want to.

4I avoid situations that remind me of the stressor.

5I feel depressed because of the stressor.

6I feel anxious because of the stressor.

7I have the feeling that the stressor has changed my life permanently for the worse.

8I feel overwhelmed by the stressor.

Please answer all 8 questions.