
Clinician guide
How to Assess Partner Response to Body-State Communication
Assess partner response to body-state communication using availability, recognition, confirmation, latency, agreed action, backup coverage, repair, and fit.
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Clinician guide
Assess partner response to body-state communication using availability, recognition, confirmation, latency, agreed action, backup coverage, repair, and fit.

Clinician guide
Sample body-state communication in natural routines with consent, ordinary access, safe stops, eligible opportunities, partner response, privacy, and no deprivation.

Clinician guide
Assess fatigue and sleep-related changes using direct report, schedule, workload, health and medication flags, rest access, safety, referral, and phased evidence.

Clinician guide
Assess hunger, thirst, and toileting communication using accessible messages, routine opportunities, partner response, dignity, privacy, and unconditional access.

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Assess pain and discomfort communication using accessible messages, partner response, urgent medical routing, ordinary supports, privacy, and scope limits.

Clinician guide
Assess body-state communication without forced emotion labels using chosen messages, AAC, uncertainty, help, pause, refusal, partner response, and privacy.

Clinician guide
Separate body sensation, physiology, and observer inference using attributed sources, timing, uncertainty, privacy, medical scope, and correction.

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Define an interoception and body-state assessment question using direct report, accessible communication, context, supports, health, safety, privacy, and limits.

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Document emotion-regulation evidence with contexts, events, direct experience, communication, strategies, co-regulation, health, safety, denominators, and limits.

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Reassess emotion regulation after health, context, or support changes by preserving phases, routing urgent needs, restoring access, and collecting focused evidence.

Clinician guide
Assess emotion regulation across contexts without privacy overreach by selecting useful samples and defining consent, exclusions, retention, context, and limits.

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Measure recovery without a return-to-calm rule using defined start events, person-selected markers, communication, supports, duration, aftereffects, and outcomes.