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Full name of scale |
(BDI-I and -II) Beck Depression Inventory-I (A. T. Beck, Ward, Mendelson, Mock, & Erbaugh, 1961) / II(A. T. Beck, Steer, Ball, & Ranieri, 1996),(A. Beck, Steer, & Brown, 1996) |
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Languages |
English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, German, Korean, Polish, Swedish, Arabic and Turkish |
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French version reference |
Beck, A. T., Brown, G. K., & Steer, R. A. (n.d.). Inventaire de Dépression de Beck (French version). Inventaire de dépression de Beck (BDI-II). Retrieved March 29, 2022, from https://www.pearsonclinical.ca/store/caassessments/en/Store/Professional... |
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Rater |
Clinician-rated or Patient-rated |
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Training |
Clinical professions who are trained in topics like suicide and depression are ideal to help work through any negative emotions that appear during interview, but this is not necessary |
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Utility |
Clinical and research settings Assessing the intensity of depression in psychiatrically diagnosed patients and detecting depression in normal populations |
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Time to complete |
5 minutes; self-administered, or 15 minutes; verbally by a trained administrator |
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Cost/license |
Copyrighted scale |
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Other relevant info |
The reading level is a fifth/sixth grade level; easy to understand |
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. Follow this link for the article.
Beck, A. T., Steer, R. A., Ball, R., & Ranieri, W. F. (1996). Comparison of Beck Depression Inventories-IA and-II in psychiatric outpatients. Journal of Personality Assessment, 67(3), 588–597. Follow this link for the article.
Beck, A., Steer, R., & Brown, G. (1996). Manual for the Beck depression inventory-II (BDI-II).
