Attachment Lens for Family Therapists
A B2B assessment and session tool that lets family therapists administer the validated DAIS scale to adolescent clients and surface conversation prompts about how caregiver device use is shaping attachment.
Licensed family and adolescent therapists running weekly sessions
- Digital DAIS administration with auto-scoring and longitudinal tracking across sessions
- Curated prompt bank linking scale items to therapeutic conversation starters
- Group supervision dashboards for clinics that want to standardize how technoference is explored
- HIPAA-compliant deployment with printable clinician notes
A validated, peer-reviewed instrument (DAIS) just landed in the literature, giving clinicians a legitimate tool to bring caregiver phone use into sessions without it feeling anecdotal.
DAIS just published June 2026 with 600-teen validation; HN engagement was modest (64 pts/25 comments) and family therapists specializing in adolescents are a narrow subset of the ~60K US family therapists, with no evidence yet of clinical adoption of the new instrument.'Mommy, do you love your phone more than me?': Study links parental distraction to teen insecurity ↗Newport Healthcare Study: Parent Phone Distraction & Teen Attachment ↗
Confirmed no commercial product currently wraps the DAIS, but the adjacent assessment-tool space is mature (PARiConnect, Pearson Q-global, psychometrics-as-a-service) and general therapy SaaS (SimplePractice, etc.) is crowded; whitespace exists specifically for DAIS but not for the broader category."Mommy, do you love your phone more than me?": Parental ... - Frontiers ↗Best Family Therapy Software ↗
Family therapists do pay $50-200/mo for practice software, but a single-instrument assessment wrapper is a hard sell without CE credits or EHR integration; willingness to pay for a brand-new, not-yet-standardized scale is unproven.Best Therapy Software - 2026 Reviews & Pricing ↗Newport Healthcare Study: Parent Phone Distraction & Teen Attachment ↗
Caregiver phone distraction as a clinical topic has clear secular tailwinds, but DAIS itself is brand new (June 2026) with no track record of clinical uptake; the instrument could be superseded by better-validated successors."Mommy, do you love your phone more than me?": Parental ... - Frontiers ↗
Administering a fixed validated Likert scale plus generating clinician prompts is a small web-app build with no clinical hardware or regulated pathway beyond HIPAA; main drag is distribution into clinical workflows rather than engineering difficulty.Top 10 Apps for Therapists to Use With Clients in 2026 ↗