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YouthMind

Adolescent screening, age-gated, with risk answers raised the same minute.

Installs with PsychMetrics, whose screen it works on

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What it is

Loads three instruments onto the PsychMetrics bench with their citations and licence notes: PHQ-A (the PHQ-9 modified for adolescents, with its past-year, difficulty and two suicide questions), GAD-7 (the one already on the bench) and the Columbia C-SSRS paediatric screen. A screen is refused for anyone who was not 12 to 17 on the day, computed from the birth date on file — by the service in words and by a database trigger for any other writer. A positive self-harm or suicide answer flags the administration onto Psych Scales’ safeguarding list in the same transaction and raises an AlertDesk alert to everyone who reads youth screens; a Yes to C-SSRS 4, 5 or 6 is marked urgent, as Columbia’s triage marks it. The clinician can send PHQ-A or GAD-7 to the young person’s portal link, where it is answered one question at a time with the instrument’s own words and scored by the same rule; they are told only that it reached the clinic, and where to get help now (112, Tele-MANAS 14416).

Who uses it: Built for: Psychiatry · Psychology & Counselling · Paediatrics
Reads: The patient record and birth date, the PsychMetrics bench
Writes: Psychometric administrations, youth screens and their risk answers, portal questionnaire requests
Never: It does not diagnose or advise, and it never shows the young person a score or a label.
Access: Only people whose role includes it — the clinic owner decides who
Your data: Full PHI. Hosted in Boston, United States. On uninstall: Every record stays; only the workflow leaves.

How it works

Load the youth pack onceOn Youth Screening, press Load onto the bench: PHQ-A and the C-SSRS screen go onto the PsychMetrics bench with their citations and licence notes, and the GAD-7 already there is reused. CRAFFT is not in the pack — its authors approve each electronic copy first.
Find the young personSearch by name or MRN. The screen shows their age from the date of birth on file, and refuses anyone not 12 to 17 on the day, or anyone with no date of birth, saying which.
Screen in the room, or send it to their linkPick PHQ-A, GAD-7 or the C-SSRS screen and tap the answers — the C-SSRS greys out questions 3 to 5 after a No to question 2 — then Save screen. Or press Send PHQ-A (or GAD-7) to the patient’s portal link: it waits there for 14 days and is answered one question at a time.
Act on a risk answerA positive self-harm or suicide answer puts the screen on the Risk answers list here and on Psych Scales’ safeguarding list, and alerts everyone who reads youth screens. A C-SSRS Yes to 4, 5 or 6 is marked urgent. Open the Safety plan from the row.

Rules it keeps

What it does not do, by design. A listing with only benefits is an advertisement.

It does not diagnose or advise, and it never shows the young person a score or a label.

The C-SSRS is never offered on the portal — it is a trained interviewer’s protocol.

CRAFFT 2.1 is not included, because its authors ask to approve each electronic reproduction first; a clinic holding that approval loads it on Psych Scales.

It holds no guardian rule of its own: consent is recorded where the encounter is, and the crisis plan is SafetyPlan’s.

AI in YouthMind

AskQuestions about what is on screen — “What needs attention in YouthMind today?” — answered with the records it read.

DraftSummaries and notes for the team, marked as drafts until a person signs.

Every answer shows its sources. Nothing AI writes is saved until a person accepts it.

See it on screen

YouthMind — Youth Screening — Screen 12–17 year olds for low mood, anxiety and suicide risk, in person or on their link — 01Youth Screening — Screen 12–17 year olds for low mood, anxiety and suicide risk, in person or on their linkCaptured from the running demo clinic

01Youth Screening — Screen 12–17 year olds for low mood, anxiety and suicide risk, in person or on their linkCaptured from the running demo clinic

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Connected to

Read out of the code, not the brochure: each app below is here because one service queries the other’s tables. Install either side and the hand-over is already wired.

Reads from · 2

Patient Registry PsychMetrics

Hands to · 1

PsychMetrics

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Questions clinics ask

What does YouthMind do?

Adolescent screening, age-gated, with risk answers raised the same minute. Loads three instruments onto the PsychMetrics bench with their citations and licence notes: PHQ-A (the PHQ-9 modified for adolescents, with its past-year, difficulty and two suicide questions), GAD-7 (the one already on the bench) and the Columbia C-SSRS paediatric screen. A screen is refused for anyone who was not 12 to 17 on the day, computed from the birth date on file — by the service in words and by a database trigger for any other writer. A positive self-harm or suicide answer flags the administration onto Psych Scales’ safeguarding list in the same transaction and raises an AlertDesk alert to everyone who reads youth screens; a Yes to C-SSRS 4, 5 or 6 is marked urgent, as Columbia’s triage marks it. The clinician can send PHQ-A or GAD-7 to the young person’s portal link, where it is answered one question at a time with the instrument’s own words and scored by the same rule; they are told only that it reached the clinic, and where to get help now (112, Tele-MANAS 14416).

What data does YouthMind read and write?

YouthMind reads the patient record and birth date, the PsychMetrics bench and writes psychometric administrations, youth screens and their risk answers, portal questionnaire requests. Its data class is Full PHI. Every app works on the same patient record — nothing is copied into a silo.

What does YouthMind deliberately not do?

It does not diagnose or advise, and it never shows the young person a score or a label. The C-SSRS is never offered on the portal — it is a trained interviewer’s protocol. CRAFFT 2.1 is not included, because its authors ask to approve each electronic reproduction first; a clinic holding that approval loads it on Psych Scales. It holds no guardian rule of its own: consent is recorded where the encounter is, and the crisis plan is SafetyPlan’s.

What happens to our data if we uninstall YouthMind?

Every record stays; only the workflow leaves.

Is YouthMind available today?

Yes — YouthMind is live in clinics today. Set up your practice on MedAppz and install it from your dashboard.

Want to see YouthMind running on your own patients?

Tell us what you run and we will show you this app inside a practice shaped like yours — or answer the question the page above did not.

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