2. The method of claim 1 , wherein: the life stage readiness application further includes: a dynamic treatment module for executing a plurality of treatment programs for treating a plurality of mental and emotional syndromes and disorders; and a life skills training module for executing a plurality of training programs for improving a user's readiness for a life stage transition; the plurality of databases further includes: a dynamic treatment database storing a plurality of treatment programs for treating a plurality of mental and emotional syndromes and disorders; and a life skills training database storing a plurality of training programs for improving a user's readiness for a life stage transition; upon determining that the user's measured composite score is less than the baseline composite score, comparing the user's scores for each of the measured life skill competencies to the respective baseline score stored in the life skills baseline score database for each of the plurality of measured life skill competencies and determining whether the user has a deficit score associated with any of the plurality of measured life skill competencies; outputting to the user access device the measured scores of the measured life skill competencies indicative of either a diagnosis of a syndrome or disorder or a life skill deficiency; upon the generating of a diagnosis of a syndrome or disorder, selecting at least one treatment program from the plurality of treatment programs in the dynamic treatment database for providing treatment for the first most likely diagnosis; using the selected at least one treatment program, interactively engaging in at least one session with the user over the communications network to improve the user's readiness for the life stage transition; guiding the user to input a value rating of the at least one session of the at least one treatment program taken by the user; upon the outputting of a diagnosis of a life skill deficiency, selecting at least one training program from the plurality of training programs in the life skills training database for providing training to improve the indicated life skill deficiency; using the selected at least one training program, interactively engaging in at least one session with the user over the communications network to improve the user's readiness for the life stage transition; guiding the user to input a value rating of the at least one session of the at least one training program taken by the user; and in response to the user's rating of either the at least one session of the at least one treatment program or the at least one session of the at least one training program, reassessing the user's most likely diagnosis from the plurality of differential diagnoses generated by said application and reassessing the user's readiness for the life stage transition.
1. A computer-implemented method of assessing and improving a user's life skills and self-efficacy for life stage readiness, comprising: providing a life stage readiness application which includes: a life skills measurement module, and a reverse engineering diagnosis module; providing a plurality of databases including: a life skills baseline score database for storing a numeric scoring system for scoring life skill competencies, the scoring system including a baseline score for each of a plurality of preselected life skill competencies and a composite baseline score for the plurality of preselected life skill competencies for each of a plurality of preselected life stage transitions, a life skills measurement database for storing data about the user's symptoms and other evidence of the user's mental and emotional health and life skill competencies of the user, and a reverse engineering diagnoses database for storing data of a plurality of human syndromes and disorders and other evidence of a human's emotional and mental health associated with each of such syndromes and disorders; using the life skills measurement module, collecting from the user via a user access device over a communications network data about the user's symptoms and other evidence of the user's life skills and mental and emotional health and storing such collected data in the life skills measurement database; assessing the user's readiness for a life stage transition based upon the collected user symptoms and other evidence wherein such assessing includes, in at least one interactive session with the user via the user access device over the communications network, measuring a plurality of life skill competencies, wherein the measuring of a plurality of life skill competencies includes generating quantitative scores based upon the numeric scoring system of the user's self-image, self-management skills, risk/reward predisposition, interpersonal skills, and existence or non-existence of one or more syndromes and disorders; using the reverse engineering diagnosis module, generating a plurality of potential differential diagnoses by comparing the user's collected symptoms and other evidence of the user's mental and emotional health with the symptoms and other evidence of mental and emotional health associated with each of the plurality of human syndromes and disorders stored in the reverse engineering diagnoses database; ranking the plurality of potential diagnoses using the reverse engineering diagnosis module from most likely to least likely; wherein the assessing of the user's readiness for a life stage transition includes: determining a composite score of the scores of the measured life skill competencies; and comparing the composite score to the respective baseline composite score stored in the life skills baseline score database for the life stage transition, which baseline composite score is predictive of the user's readiness or unreadiness for success in the life stage transition; upon determining that the user's measured composite score is greater than the baseline composite score, outputting to the user the measured composite score indicative of the user's readiness for the life stage transaction.