The Perceived Stress Scale contains ten items and is designed to measure the degree to which situations in one's life are appraised as stressful (Cohen, 1994). The minimum score is 0 and the maximum score is 40, with higher scores indicating higher levels of stress.

The Maslach Burnout Inventory is a 22- item scale that is divided into three sub-scales: Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization, and Personal Accomplishment. Items are scored using a 7 level frequency scale from "never" to "daily." The 9-item Emotional Exhaustion scale measures feelings of being emotionally overextended. Scores from 0-16 represent low burnout, 17-29 represent moderate burnout, and 30 and over is high burnout. The 5-item Depersonalization scale measures a dehumanization in interpersonal interactions/ Scores of 0-5 represent low burnout, 6-11 represent moderate burnout and 12 or over represent high burnout. The 8-item Personal Accomplishment scale measures feelings of successful achievement in one's work with people. Scores of 33 or less represent high burnout, 34-39 represent moderate burnout, and 40 or over represent low burnout (Maslach, Leiter & Jackson, 1996).

The Adverse Childhood Events (ACE) Scale includes 10 questions about childhood abuse and exposure to forms of household dysfunction before the age of 18 There is a maximum score of 10, which indicates a greater number of adverse childhood events. The higher your ACE score, the higher your risk of health and social problems (Felitti et al., 1998).

The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) is made up of nine questions and is diagnostic for depression. Importantly, the PHQ-9 has also been found to be sensitive to change for monitoring of treatment outcomes (Kohrt et al, 2016; Lowe et al, 2004). The PHQ-9 asks participants, "Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by any of the following problems?" All answers have four options ranging from "not at all," "several days," more than half the days," or "nearly every day" for a number of symptoms related to depression. Major depression and other depressive syndromes are diagnosed based on answers of "more than half the days" or "nearly every day" to "Little interest or pleasure in doing things" or "Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless" plus 2-5 or more of the other symptoms.

The Sheehan Disability Scale is a 3-item scale that assesses impairment in three areas: work, social and family (Sheehan, 1983). The questions inquire about the degree to which one's burnout, panic, anxiety, phobia, or depressive symptoms interfere with work/school, social life, and family. The scale ranges from 0 (not at all) to 10 (extremely), with higher scores indicating greater disability. The 3 items can also be summed into a single dimensional measure of global functional impairment that rages from 0 (unimpaired) to 30 (highly impaired).

The short-form Self-Compassion Scale includes twelve items and is comparable to the longer, 26-item, scale. The short form includes two items each on self-kindness, self-judgement, common humanity, isolation, therapeutic yoga and overidentified items.(Raes, Pommier, Neff, & Van Gucht, 2011). The scale ranges from 1- 5, with 1 indicating almost never, and 5 indicating almost always. Subscale scores are computed by calculating the mean of subscale item responses and total mean scores are also calculated for a total self-compassion score.

The Readiness for Change Scale contains 3 questions regarding making a change in one's life. It is based on a 10-point scale, and scores range from 0-30. Lower numbers indicate less readiness, and the higher numbers indicate greater readiness for change (Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, 1999).

The DeJong Gierveld 6-item Loneliness Scale captures both emotional loneliness (missing an intimate relationship) and social loneliness (missing a wider social network) (Gierveld et al., 2006; Grygiel et al., 2016). Answer choices include: "Yes", "More or Less", and "No". On the negatively worded items, the neutral and positive answers are scored as "1". Therefore, on questions 1-3 score Yes=1, More or less=1, and No=0. On the positively worded items, the neutral and negative answers are scored as "1". Scores range from 0-6, with higher scores indicating higher levels of loneliness.