How to Use the Friedman Scales

The Friedman Life Balance Scale, the Friedman Spiritual Awakening Scale, the Friedman Mini Five Factor Scales, the Friedman Affect Scale-Short Form, the Friedman Belief Scale-Short Form and the Friedman Well-Being Scale-Short Form can be used by both the general public, researchers and clinicians to assess life balance, spiritual awakening, personality dimensions of an individual, beliefs and well-being under different circumstances. For example it can be given at the beginning of a course of psychotherapy and used to track change over time. It can be given weekly or at intervals such as every 3 or 5 therapy sessions or just pre and post psychotherapy and at follow-ups of 1,3,6, 12 or 24 months. It can be given to measure change occurring as a result of interventions such as a meditation or mindfulness or an energy or spiritual healing or personal growth retreat or course over 8-12 weeks or 3, 6 or 12 months. The scales are all easy to administer, score and record either by paper and pencil or electronically.

The Friedman Life Balance Scale, the Friedman Spiritual Awakening Scale, the Friedman Mini Five Factor Scales and subscales , the Friedman Affect Scale-Short Form, the Friedman Belief Scale-Short Form and the Friedman Well-Being Scale-Short Form can also be used to measure changes in certain healthcare policies or interventions, surgeries, addiction programs, and marital or family interventions. They can be used to assess certain demographic populations by age, sex, socioeconomic and religious variables, income, occupational/work or social status factors etc. They can be given at regular intervals such as every few days, week, month or year. Additionally spouses, partners, parents, children, friends, colleagues and employees/employers can rate themselves or another person and compare the results. This can lead to measures of congruence and incongruence amongst different parties. Of course the Friedman Spiritual Awakening Scale can be used to measure spiritual awakening levels in individuals, groups and society over time.

In general since these scales are short, easily administered and scored they can be rapidly used by hand or electronically via computers on websites, survey instruments and apps. In fact the Friedman Scales have a potentially wide variety of uses limited only by the ingenuity of the individual, researcher or clinician.