Assessment Alternatives and Platform Comparisons
For psychologists and mental health clinicians weighing up their options — both the assessments they use and the platforms they run them on. Each guide compares a widely used commercial tool or platform with evidence-based alternatives available through NovoPsych and NovoNote — matched on capability, not cost.
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Assessment Alternatives
Free, evidence-based measures on NovoPsych that match the coverage of widely used commercial assessments.
Free depression measures for screening, severity and monitoring
Seeking an alternative to the BDI-II for depression? NovoPsych hosts free, validated measures spanning DSM-aligned severity screening, transdiagnostic distress and specialty scales, with automated scoring and no per-report cost.
Free broad-coverage behavioural & emotional measures
Alternatives to the CBCL or BASC-3 for assessing youth behaviour and emotion. These five measures give broad coverage across behavioural, emotional and attention domains with multi-informant versions.
Free multi-informant rating scales for ages 5–12
Comparable measurement coverage to the Conners 4 and BASC — SNAP-IV, SWAN and the Vanderbilt scales give parent- and teacher-rated ADHD assessment with DSM-5 alignment, co-occurring screens and functional impairment, at no cost.
Alternative Platforms
How NovoPsych (assessment platform) and NovoNote (AI scribe and assistant) compare with other tools clinicians consider.
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