Assessments that give us the whole picture
Good assessment keeps us from guessing. It shows me what is happening, what is feeding it, and what needs attention first, so our work starts with facts instead of a rushed first impression.
My newest and most comprehensive option is my own set of three batteries: SAI, SALT, and SPI. I developed them in November 2026 using clinically validated, independently published measures. They cover important ground that the standard IITAP assessments do not, including several patterns other CSATs do not routinely have a way to measure in one place.
I also administer the established IITAP assessments as a CSAT. The two approaches work well together. IITAP gives us its specialized view of sexual behavior, trauma, and the partner’s experience. My batteries add breadth, detail, and a wider view of everyday life. I choose the combination that fits your situation rather than handing everybody the same form.
My assessment batteries: SAI, SALT, and SPI
These are the assessments I recommend first when we need a broad, detailed picture. Each one brings several established measures into a single private online battery. I review the answers myself, look for patterns across the different parts, and talk through the results with you. A score never sits alone without context.
The three batteries are separate, and each has a distinct job. Together, they let me understand the person struggling with compulsive behavior, the lasting effects of difficult experiences, and the partner’s reality. That is a more complete starting point than any one questionnaire can provide.
SAI: Salzman Addiction Inventory
SAI is my client battery. It looks at compulsive sexual behavior and porn use from several angles, including control, consequences, craving, online behavior, and the reasons the behavior can be hard to stop. It also asks about mood, anxiety, attention, autism-related traits, attachment, alcohol, drugs, gambling, gaming, and eating.
That wider view matters. Sexual behavior does not happen in isolation, and a plan that ignores stress, attention, relationships, or another compulsive habit can leave an important part of the problem untouched. SAI gives me more of the picture before we decide where to start.
SAI also includes answer-consistency and attention checks. These help me judge how much weight to give the results and where I need to ask more questions. When your answers to different parts point in different directions, I treat that as something to understand, not as a reason to make assumptions about you.
Compared with an IITAP assessment focused on sexual behavior or digital media, SAI adds a broader screen of the rest of your life. It complements the SDI and SDMI by adding detail they were not designed to gather. It does not replace our conversation, and it does not turn a complex history into one number.
Start the client assessment with your code
SALT: Salzman Assessment of Lasting Trauma
SALT looks at what difficult experiences may have left behind. It covers upsetting experiences across your life, childhood adversity, trauma reactions, spacing out or feeling unreal, shame, difficulty handling emotions, risky ways of coping, and attachment to someone who hurt you.
This is where my battery adds important depth to trauma assessment. SALT gives shame, dissociation, emotional regulation, and trauma bonding their own careful look. Those experiences can sit underneath compulsive behavior, secrecy, and repeated relationship patterns without being obvious in a first session.
SALT complements the PTSI-R. It uses its own independent published measures and gives me additional detail in areas that a broader trauma screen may not fully capture. When we use both, I can place IITAP’s trauma findings beside a fuller account of how you cope, how you relate to others, and how you experience yourself.
You do not have to tell your whole story in one sitting. Your answers save as you go, and you can return with the same access code when you are ready.
Start with your code on the client assessment page (same one-code gate; choose SALT after you enter the code).
SPI: Salzman Partner Inventory
SPI is for the partner. Discovery affects your sleep, concentration, sense of safety, relationships, sexuality, and ability to get through an ordinary day. Your assessment should make room for all of that.
SPI asks about the impact of discovery, trauma reactions, mood, anxiety, earlier life experiences, attachment, gaslighting, safety, daily functioning, sleep, support, self-care, hope, resilience, and sexual satisfaction. When faith is part of your life, it also includes questions about spiritual struggle and support. Questions about your current situation help me understand what you are facing now, including whether information has come out in pieces.
SPI complements the IPAST by adding a fuller view of your present circumstances, your strengths, and the support around you. It does not treat you as an extension of your partner’s recovery. Your answers guide work around your needs, whether or not your partner is ready to do his or her part.
IITAP assessments I also use
I am a CSAT, and I use IITAP assessments when their particular focus will help us. These are established tools with a long history in sex addiction and partner work. If you already know the names SDI, PTSI-R, IPAST, or SDMI, I can talk with you about which one fits and whether one of my batteries should accompany it.
SDI 4.0: Sexual Dependency Inventory
The SDI looks closely at compulsive and addictive sexual behavior, including patterns of thoughts, behaviors, emotions, and consequences. It gives us a detailed behavioral picture and helps identify the areas that need attention in recovery work. SAI complements it by widening the lens to mood, attention, attachment, craving, and other habits that may be part of the same pattern.
PTSI-R: Post-Traumatic Stress Index, Revised
The PTSI-R focuses on trauma-related reactions and their role in the work ahead. It can help us see how painful experiences connect with present-day coping and relationships. SALT complements it with separate, in-depth measures of shame, dissociation, emotional regulation, risky coping, and trauma bonding.
IPAST: Inventory for Partner Attachment, Stress, and Trauma
The IPAST assesses the impact of compulsive sexual behavior and betrayal on a partner. It helps bring the partner’s attachment, stress, and trauma experience into the plan rather than leaving the focus entirely on the person who acted out. SPI complements it with more detail about safety, daily life, sleep, support, self-care, resilience, hope, and sexuality.
SDMI: Sexual Digital Media Inventory
The SDMI focuses on digital sexual behavior, including preferred online activities and their impact. It is useful when technology is central to the behavior. SAI complements it with additional measures of online sexual behavior, general internet use, porn-related difficulties, craving, mood, and other parts of life that can shape the pattern.
I do not use these tools to force your experience into a template. I compare what each assessment shows with what you tell me, then we decide what deserves attention first.
Other IITAP assessments available when needed
MAWASI-R: Money and Work Adaptive Styles Index, Revised
I can administer the MAWASI-R when money or work patterns need a closer look, although it is not one of the assessments I typically use. It can add a useful perspective when financial behavior, work, and compulsive patterns are affecting one another. If that is part of your situation, we can discuss whether it belongs in your assessment plan.
How to get started
Contact me first so we can choose the right assessment. I will then email you a private access code and tell you which page to use. You do not need to decide on a battery by yourself.
- If I have asked you to complete SAI, open the client assessment page and enter your code.
- If I have asked you to complete SPI, open the partner assessment page and enter your own code. Your partner receives a different code for a different assessment.
- If I have asked you to complete SALT, open the client assessment page, enter your code, and choose SALT in the chooser.
Set aside about an hour for SAI, SALT, or SPI. You do not have to finish in one sitting. Your answers save as you go, and you can close the page and resume later with the same code. There are no right or wrong answers, and honest answers are more useful than polished ones.
If you have not received a code, or yours is not working, contact me and I will sort it out.
Private answers, reviewed with me
Your answers are confidential, and I use them to understand your situation and guide our work together. The assessment pages are private, and you will not see a scored report when you finish. I review the results, and we talk about what they mean in session.
These questionnaires are not a clinical label. They are one part of a careful assessment, alongside your history, your current circumstances, and our conversations. A high or low score is never the whole story, and no online questionnaire can replace that discussion.
Brad Salzman, LCSW, CSAT, is licensed in New York only. Outside New York, my work is coaching and consultation.