Pearson - Clinical and Talent Assessment - Australia and New Zealand

The BDI - FastScreen builds on 40 years of psychometric data and clinical experience. It is a 7-item self report, case-finding instrument that screens for depression in adolescents and adults.

It consists of items extracted from the BDI®-II and measures the severity of depression that corresponds to the psychological non-somatic criteria for diagnosing major depressive disorders (MDD) as listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 4th Edition (DSM-IV).

It addresses the concerns of clinicians who have questioned whether the inclusion of 8 somatic and performance symptoms in the BDI scale might be yielding spuriously high estimates for the prevalence of depression in patients with medical problems due to symptom overlap.

Therefore, the BDI - FastScreen was constructed to reduce the number of false positives for depression in patients with known biological, medical or alcohol/substance abuse problems.

It should not however be considered as a substitute for the 21-item BDI-II, especially in estimating the severity of depression in patients who have already been clinically diagnosed for MDD in medical populations in which the underlying prevalence of MDD ranges from 5 to 40%.

This product is also available to level M users.

Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)

Measure the severity of anxiety in adolescents and adults

Beck Depression Inventory - Second Edition (BDI-II)

Assess patients diagnosed as depressed and detect depression among the normal population

Beck Youth Inventories of Emotional and Social
Impairment - Second Edition (BYI-II)

Evaluate children's and adolescents' emotional and social impairment

Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS)

Evaluate the magnitude of hopelessness in psychiatrically diagnosed patients, and assess hopelessness in the normal population

Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation (BSS)

Assess an individual's thoughts, attitudes and intentions regarding suicide