BECK

INVENTORIES

Reported by: Rachel Ann Gumban

AARON BECK

Founding father of Cognitive-behavioral Psychotherapy

Has developed a series of inventories to assess

depression,
anxiety,
hopelessness, and
suicidal ideation (thoughts hurting oneself)

 Has become the most widely used checklist instrument to assess the

severity of depressive
It has been revised and updated several time with the most recent version

(BDI-II) Publish in 1996

THE BECK DEPRESSION

 It is a popular instrument for assessing the intensity of anxiety symptoms.

THE BECK ANXIETY SCAL

 Assesses hopelessness about the future and

examines feelings regarding the loss of motivation

and expectation.

THE BECK HOPELESSNESS

 Assesses suicidal thinking.

THE BECK SCALE FOR SUICIDE

 Research demonstrate that the BECK SCALES are both reliable and valid.
These inventories often are used during an initial assessment evaluation

as well as during the course of psychotherapy to assess progress and

treatment outcome.

 A checklist of over 100 problem behaviors are symptoms.

(e.g., disobedient of school, cries a lot)

The CBCL also include a series of questions concerning

childs activities, chores, friends and grades.

A pre-school and an adult version are also available.

Furthermore a Semis structured Clinical Interview

for Children and Adolescents (SCICA) and a
Direct Observation Form (i.e., DOF) are also available

CHILD BEHAVIOR CHECKLIS

 A brief and multidimensional self-report measure

to screen persons for major psychiatric symptoms.

The SCL-90-R consists of 90 items scored on a

5-point scale, the reflect nine-validated symptoms

dimensions (e.g., anxiety, depression, interpersonal
sensitivity obsessions, psychoticism).
Reliability and validity research indicates that the

SCL-90-R personality testing seeks to obtain more

detailed, complex, and comprehensive data than
available from checklists and inventories.

THE SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90-REVISED

(SCL-90-R)

 Neuroimaging
Polygraphs
Biofeedback

PHYSIOLOGICAL TES

 Techniques such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Computerized

Axial Tomography (CAT), and Poisson Emission Tomography (PEI), Scans to

examine physiological activity associated with mood and other
psychological states.

NEUROIMAGIN

 Polygraphs or lie director tests, measure physiological reactions by have

been highly criticized for being unreliable and invalid (Lykken 1991)
Whereas polygraphs measure physiological activity in a reliable and valid

way.

POLYGRAPHS

 Equipment is similar to polygraphs in that it measure physiological activity.

Unlike polygraphs, biofeedback provides information to patients or

subjects about their level of physiological arousal through visual or auditory

feedbak

BIOFEEDBACK

 Adolescent Anger Rating Scale

Coping Response Inventory

Adolescent Drinking Index

Dementia Rating Scale-2

Career Assessment Inventory

Eating Disorder Inventory-2

Childhood Autism Rating Scale

Emotional Problems Scale

Childrens Depression Inventory

Goldfarb Fear of Fat Scale

Checklist for Child Abuse

Guilford- Zimmerman Temperament

Evaluation

Survey

OTHER CHECKLISTS AND

 Hamilton Depression Inventory

Hare Psychopathy Checklist-

Revised

Santa Clara Strength of Religions Faith

Questionnaire
State-Trait Anxiety Inventory

Health Status Questionnaire

State- Trait Anger Expression Inventory-2

Occupational Stress Inventory-

Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire

Revised
Parenting Stress Index
Personality Assessment Inventory

Trauma Symptom Inventory

West Haven Yale Multidimensional Pain

Inventory

Quality of Life Inventory

OTHER CHECKLISTS AND