{
  "assessmentTests": {
    "childhood_emotional_neglect_screener": {
      "name": "Emotional Neglect Check-In",
      "desc": "A 20-question self-reflection across four domains: emotional attunement, validation, emotional support, and how the pattern shows up today.",
      "recommendation": "Your emotional neglect check-in profile",
      "questions": [
        {
          "question": "Growing up, I usually had to point out that something was wrong before anyone at home noticed.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "If I was quiet or upset as a kid, it could go unnoticed for days.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I was asked about what happened in my day far more often than I was asked how I felt about it.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "My parents focused on whether I was fed, clothed, and doing fine at school more than on how I was feeling underneath that.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "As a kid, I learned to read the room and adjust rather than expect someone to check in on my mood.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "When I got upset as a child, I was told I was overreacting or being too sensitive.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I remember being told to stop crying or calm down more than I remember being asked why I was upset.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "My worries as a kid were waved off as silly or not a big deal.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "If I was angry or hurt growing up, the message I got was that I shouldn't feel that way, not that the feeling made sense.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I learned early that bringing up how I felt usually got minimized rather than taken seriously.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "My physical needs, food, clothes, a roof, were covered growing up, but comfort when I was upset was harder to come by.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "When something hard happened to me as a kid, I mostly had to sit with it on my own.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I can't think of many times growing up when someone sat with me through a difficult feeling instead of just moving on.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Emotional topics weren't really something my family talked about; we stuck to practical things.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "If I needed comforting as a child, I usually had to comfort myself.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "As an adult, I have trouble naming exactly what I'm feeling in the moment.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I tend to handle hard emotions completely on my own, even when people who care about me are right there.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Asking someone for emotional support, not just practical help, makes me uncomfortable or guilty.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "I sometimes feel a vague sense of emptiness or disconnection that I can't fully explain.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "People have told me I seem 'fine' or 'strong' even when I'm struggling inside, and I don't correct them.",
          "options": [
            { "icon": "🚫", "label": "Never", "desc": "Not something I experience" },
            { "icon": "🤔", "label": "Sometimes", "desc": "Happens occasionally" },
            { "icon": "📍", "label": "Often", "desc": "Happens regularly" },
            { "icon": "🔴", "label": "Almost Always", "desc": "A constant challenge for me" }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "dimensions": {
        "emotional_attunement": {
          "name": "Emotional Attunement",
          "desc": "Whether your feelings were something the adults around you noticed and responded to when you were growing up, not just what you did or needed.",
          "high": "Feelings usually had to be pointed out before anyone noticed; the adults around you weren't especially tuned in to your emotional state unless you named it yourself.",
          "low": "Your moods were something the adults around you tended to pick up on without you having to explain, even when you didn't say anything.",
          "icon": "👁️",
          "science": "Norman, R.E., Byambaa, M., De, R., Butchart, A., Scott, J., & Vos, T. (2012). The Long-Term Health Consequences of Child Physical Abuse, Emotional Abuse, and Neglect: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. PLoS Medicine, 9(11), e1001349."
        },
        "validation": {
          "name": "Validation",
          "desc": "Whether your emotional reactions, sadness, anger, worry, were treated as legitimate growing up, or brushed off as too much.",
          "high": "Your feelings were often minimized or labeled as overreacting rather than taken at face value.",
          "low": "When you got upset as a kid, your reaction was generally treated as making sense, not dismissed.",
          "icon": "🤲",
          "science": "Norman, R.E., Byambaa, M., De, R., Butchart, A., Scott, J., & Vos, T. (2012). The Long-Term Health Consequences of Child Physical Abuse, Emotional Abuse, and Neglect: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. PLoS Medicine, 9(11), e1001349."
        },
        "emotional_support": {
          "name": "Emotional Support",
          "desc": "Whether comfort and emotional presence were available growing up, separate from whether your physical needs were met.",
          "high": "Physical needs were generally covered, but comfort during hard moments was mostly something you had to provide for yourself.",
          "low": "When something hard happened, someone was generally there to sit with you through it, not just make sure you were fed and safe.",
          "icon": "🫂",
          "science": "Norman, R.E., Byambaa, M., De, R., Butchart, A., Scott, J., & Vos, T. (2012). The Long-Term Health Consequences of Child Physical Abuse, Emotional Abuse, and Neglect: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. PLoS Medicine, 9(11), e1001349."
        },
        "adult_patterns": {
          "name": "Patterns Now",
          "desc": "How the childhood pattern tends to surface today: difficulty naming feelings, over-reliance on yourself, discomfort asking for support.",
          "high": "You tend to handle emotions alone by default, and asking for support, even from people who care about you, doesn't come naturally.",
          "low": "Naming what you feel and asking for support when you need it both come fairly naturally to you.",
          "icon": "🧭",
          "science": "Norman, R.E., Byambaa, M., De, R., Butchart, A., Scott, J., & Vos, T. (2012). The Long-Term Health Consequences of Child Physical Abuse, Emotional Abuse, and Neglect: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. PLoS Medicine, 9(11), e1001349."
        }
      },
      "results": {
        "minimal": {
          "name": "Minimal Signs of Emotional Neglect",
          "desc": "Your responses suggest your feelings were generally noticed, taken seriously, and met with real comfort growing up. That kind of attunement isn't something everyone gets, and it tends to show up today as being comfortable naming what you feel and asking for support when you need it.",
          "recommendation": "There's no action needed here. If you're curious how this compares to other patterns, the four domains above are a good reference point to revisit down the line."
        },
        "mild": {
          "name": "Mild Signs of Emotional Neglect",
          "desc": "A few emotional gaps show up in your responses, moments where your feelings may have gone unnoticed, been minimized, or been left for you to manage on your own. This is common and doesn't mean your childhood was defined by neglect, just that attunement wasn't there every time.",
          "recommendation": "It can help to notice which specific domain, attunement, validation, or support, stands out most for you, and whether that same pattern shows up in how you handle your emotions today."
        },
        "moderate": {
          "name": "Moderate Signs of Emotional Neglect",
          "desc": "Your responses point to a fairly consistent pattern: your physical needs were likely met, but emotional attunement, validation, or comfort were often missing. Many people who recognize this pattern also had a home that looked completely fine from the outside, which is part of what makes childhood emotional neglect, a term popularized by psychologist Jonice Webb, so easy to miss for so long.",
          "recommendation": "Consider talking to a therapist familiar with childhood emotional neglect. Naming the pattern, without blaming anyone, is usually the first real step toward learning to notice, validate, and meet your own emotional needs going forward."
        },
        "high": {
          "name": "Significant Signs of Emotional Neglect",
          "desc": "Your responses suggest a strong, consistent pattern across attunement, validation, and emotional support, alongside real effects on how you relate to your own feelings today. This doesn't mean anyone in your life meant harm; emotional neglect is usually about what didn't happen rather than what did, which is exactly why it's so easy to overlook.",
          "recommendation": "A conversation with a therapist experienced in childhood emotional neglect or attachment-focused work is a reasonable next step. This is a well-recognized pattern with real, learnable ways forward: identifying feelings, asking for support, and offering yourself the attunement you may not have received."
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "testNames": {
    "childhood-emotional-neglect-screener": "Emotional Neglect Check-In"
  }
}