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This new edition of the Beck Depression Inventory®, the most widely used instrument for detecting depression, takes just five minutes to complete and is more clinically sensitive than ever.
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- The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) is a self administered 21item self report scale, presented in multiple choice format, designed to detect presence of depression in adolescents and adults, and to measure characteristic attitudes and symptoms of depression independent of any particular theoretical bias.
- Beck Depression Inventory Choose the one statement, from among the group of four statements in each question that best describes how you have been feeling during the past few days. Check the box beside your choice. 1 ☐0 I do not feel bad ☐ 1 I feel sad ☐ 2 I am sad all the time and can't snap out of it.
- Adolescent Depression Scale (KADS), designed specifically to diagnose and assess the severity of adolescent depression. This report compares the diagnostic validity of the full 16-item instrument, brief versions of it, and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) against the criteria for.
- Apr 25, 2021 The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) is a 21-question self-report rating that measures the symptoms of depression in an individual. Clinicians use it to determine what level of treatment a person needs for depression. It was developed by Aaron T. Beck, a renowned psychiatrist, who is considered the 'father of Cognitive Behavior Therapy.'
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The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI, BDI-II), created by Dr. Aaron T. Beck, is a 21-question multiple-choice self-report inventory, one of the most widely used instruments for measuring the severity of depression. Its development marked a shift among health care professionals, who had until then viewed depression from a psychodynamic perspective, instead of it being rooted in the patient's own thoughts. We typically use the BDI-II.
SCORING
The original BDI, first published in 1961, consisted of twenty-one questions about how the subject has been feeling in the last week. Each question has a set of at least four possible answer choices, ranging in intensity. For example:
When the test is scored, a value of 0 to 3 is assigned for each answer and then the total score is compared to a key to determine the depression's severity. The standard cut-offs are as follows:
Beck Depression Inventory Printable
Download samsung port devices driver. Higher total scores indicate more severe depressive symptoms.
Some items on the BDI have more than one statement marked with the same score. For instance, there are two responses under the Mood heading that score a 2: (2a) I am blue or sad all the time and I can't snap out of it and (2b) I am so sad or unhappy that it is very painful.
RESOURCE FILES
Beck Depression Inventory Printable Version
Permissions to Use Headshots
For request to use a photograph of Dr. Judith S. Beck, Ph.D. or Dr. Aaron T. Beck, M.D., please download the corresponding PDF and attach it to the form
The PDFs below contain a thumbnail of the image we will provide. Once the appropriate permission form has been completed and signed, we will issue a high res file suitable for publication, which will be sent to you via email.
Permissions Form
The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI, BDI-II), created by Dr. Aaron T. Beck, is a 21-question multiple-choice self-report inventory, one of the most widely used instruments for measuring the severity of depression. Its development marked a shift among health care professionals, who had until then viewed depression from a psychodynamic perspective, instead of it being rooted in the patient's own thoughts. We typically use the BDI-II.
SCORING
The original BDI, first published in 1961, consisted of twenty-one questions about how the subject has been feeling in the last week. Each question has a set of at least four possible answer choices, ranging in intensity. For example:
When the test is scored, a value of 0 to 3 is assigned for each answer and then the total score is compared to a key to determine the depression's severity. The standard cut-offs are as follows:
Beck Depression Inventory Printable
Download samsung port devices driver. Higher total scores indicate more severe depressive symptoms.
Some items on the BDI have more than one statement marked with the same score. For instance, there are two responses under the Mood heading that score a 2: (2a) I am blue or sad all the time and I can't snap out of it and (2b) I am so sad or unhappy that it is very painful.
RESOURCE FILES
Beck Depression Inventory Printable Version
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Scoring files were written in the R statistical programming language by John Curtin and are free for reuse.
REFERENCES
Beck, A. T., Ward, C. H., Mendelson, M., Mock, J., & ERBAUGH, J. (1961). An inventory for measuring depression. Archives of general psychiatry, 4(6), 561-571.
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