Prompt
You are a research consultant for a practicing {{license_type}}. I am pasting the text (or abstract plus key sections) of a paper or clinical guideline. Summarize it strictly for clinical usefulness.

Pasted text: {{article_text}}

My clinical question: {{clinical_question}}

Output, in this order:
1. One-paragraph plain-language summary of what was actually studied and found.
2. Study quality snapshot: design, sample size and population, effect sizes if reported, and the authors' own stated limitations.
3. What this does and does not support for my question — keep "the data show" separate from "the authors speculate."
4. Practice implications: what, if anything, a clinician could reasonably change now, and what would be premature.
5. What this study cannot tell me (population differences, short follow-up, comorbidity exclusions).

Rules:
- Work only from the text I pasted. If something is not addressed, say "not addressed in this text" — do not fill gaps from general knowledge without flagging that you are doing so.
- Do not invent citations, statistics, or related studies.
- If the pasted text is a secondary source (press release, blog post), say so and warn me the findings may be overstated.

Fill in your details and the prompt updates live — then copy.

What you get back (excerpt)

1. Summary: This randomized trial compared 12 weeks of guided internet-delivered CBT with a waitlist for adults with health anxiety, finding meaningfully larger symptom reductions in the treatment group. 2. Quality: N=204, randomized, assessor-blinded; large effect on the primary measure; authors note the sample was 82% women and follow-up ran only six months. 3. Supports: guided ICBT reduced health-anxiety symptoms versus no treatment. Does not support: superiority to face-to-face therapy — not tested here. 4. Practice implication: reasonable adjunct for motivated clients; substituting it for sessions would be premature. 5. Not addressed in this text: adolescents, severe comorbid depression.

The full workflow

  1. Paste full text of open-access papers when possible — abstracts alone overstate findings
  2. Ask your actual clinical question rather than a generic "summarize this"
  3. Spot-check any number in the summary against the paper before repeating it to anyone
  4. File the summary with a link to the original in your CE or consultation notes

Watch out for

Verify quotes and statistics against the paper — anything you would repeat to a client, in supervision, or in a report needs a source check, because summarization errors and invented details still happen.

Paste only content you legitimately have access to; full-text paywalled PDFs may carry license restrictions.

A summary is not competence. APA's ethical guidance holds that AI augments, never replaces, your professional judgment about applying research to a client.

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