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Gather the clinical frame
You collect only the supported findings, lived experiences, limits, and likely concerns needed for this conversation. This keeps the explanation grounded and reduces the chance that generic AI language will overstate the case.
Made for Clinical Psychologists
Explain a Diagnosis Without Turning It Into an Identity
Also useful for: people in Healthcare
30 min
Intermediate
Communication
Communicate Better
Difficult Conversations
Turn a diagnostic conclusion into a clear, person-centered explanation you can use in a feedback conversation.
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Make Your Play
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A diagnosis can offer relief and direction, but it can also bring fear, shame, or a sense of being reduced to a label.
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What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
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Build the person-to-framework bridge
You ask the AI to connect clinical criteria to the person's actual experience while keeping the diagnosis in its proper place: useful, limited, and separate from identity.
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Shape the live conversation
You turn the explanation into language that can respond to emotion, disagreement, and questions rather than simply deliver a conclusion.
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Run the dignity and accuracy check
You complete a final clinical review so warmth doesn't blur the finding and certainty doesn't crowd out the person's voice.
Make Your Play
Explain a Diagnosis Without Turning It Into an Identity
Tell us what the prompt needs to know
Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
Enter the diagnosis or clinical framework you've already determined is supported.
Describe the de-identified criteria, findings, and lived experiences you want the explanation to connect.
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List the main limits, uncertainties, mixed findings, or alternative explanations that should remain visible.
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Describe the fears, stigma, disagreement, or practical concerns the person may bring to the conversation.
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Select the setting that best matches the planned feedback conversation.
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What you'll do
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01
Gather the clinical frame
You collect only the supported findings, lived experiences, limits, and likely concerns needed for this conversation. This keeps the explanation grounded and reduces the chance that generic AI language will overstate the case.
02
Build the person-to-framework bridge
You ask the AI to connect clinical criteria to the person's actual experience while keeping the diagnosis in its proper place: useful, limited, and separate from identity.
03
Shape the live conversation
You turn the explanation into language that can respond to emotion, disagreement, and questions rather than simply deliver a conclusion.
04
Run the dignity and accuracy check
You complete a final clinical review so warmth doesn't blur the finding and certainty doesn't crowd out the person's voice.
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Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
Start with a de-identified summary rather than pasting a full report. Give the AI only findings you’ve already reviewed and accepted. Read the result aloud, then change any wording that doesn’t sound like you or doesn’t fit the person’s culture, age, communication needs, and current emotional state.
Advanced instructions
Use the draft as a flexible conversation map rather than a speech to deliver word for word. Adjust the order based on the person’s response, preserve meaningful uncertainty, and consider how culture, disability, trauma, and prior experiences with diagnosis may shape what the label means to this person. Verify every clinical statement against your own records and judgment.
Use this when
Use this after you've reached a supported diagnostic conclusion and need to prepare how you'll discuss it with the person, a caregiver, or another authorized participant. It's especially helpful when the diagnosis may feel stigmatizing, surprising, or identity-altering.
You'll need
- Diagnosis or framework
- Supporting evidence and lived experience
- Limits and uncertainty
- Likely concerns
- Feedback setting
You'll get
- A script that explains the diagnosis in plain language, ties it to specific lived experiences, and clearly states what it doesn't define
- Meaningful limits or uncertainty included
- For likely concerns prepared
- Questions that leave room for disagreement added Also checked every clinical statement yourself and removed identifying details.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- A script that explains the diagnosis in plain language, ties it to specific lived experiences, and clearly states what it doesn't define
- Meaningful limits or uncertainty included
- For likely concerns prepared
- Questions that leave room for disagreement added Also checked every clinical statement yourself and removed identifying details.
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