In the TRIAD intervention, nurses were instructed to use clinical judgment by evaluating behavioral signs, as well as patient reports on the presence and persistence of depressive symptoms. For example, some patients may deny depressed mood (in one depiction the patient states: “Depressed? I don’t get depressed!”) but may nonetheless show behavioral signs of depression such as downcast expression or becoming teary when discussing their life circumstances. Nurses were trained to sensitively probe for depressed mood in these cases by calling the client’s attention to their nonverbal behavior. To achieve a pragmatic balance between sensitivity and specificity, nurses were taught to ask follow-up questions about the duration and persistence of symptoms as evidence of clinical relevance. A recurrent theme of this program was the need for direct, focused probing of depression symptoms. By training nurses to ask standardized clinical questions that could be modified to fit the language of the patient, this approach was adaptable across diverse populations. This training was particularly important given previous findings that nurses are reluctant to talk about depression with culturally diverse patients.