4 Core Workflow: Identify to Monitor

This is the six-step loop for moving from presenting experience to monitoring without forcing a label.

Quick scan

Identify → Describe → Quantify → Contextualize → Decide → Monitor.

4.1 Steps (one line each)

Identify: Clarify the presenting problem in patient language and screen for safety or rule-out-first concerns.
Describe: Use Atlas entries to capture phenomenology and boundary markers.
Quantify: Rate relevant domains (0-4) and time-course; use brief measures when available.
Contextualize: Add developmental, cultural, and situational context; note contributors and protective factors.
Decide: Assign provisional prototypes when useful; add specifiers that change risk or management; record confidence and competing explanations.
Monitor: Choose a small set of signals and set a reassessment interval.

4.2 Use Patterns

Fast path (1-2 minutes): Identify + safety screen; 1-2 domain ratings; optional prototype; one-line snippet.
Standard path (5-10 minutes): Identify + describe + quantify + context; add specifiers; use 5-minute template.
Comprehensive: Full domain profile and formulation; rule-out compendium as needed; measurement plan; comprehensive note.

Outputs: presenting problem line; domain ratings + prototype tags; specifiers (course, contributors, risk, context); formulation summary and monitoring plan.

Guardrails

Scope: descriptive workflow, not diagnostic criteria or treatment guidance.