1. Beck’s Depression Inventory BDI-II
Haley, Courtney, Annie, & Christina
Rubric Option 3

2. Beck’s Depression Inventory
Original BDI 1961
Revised 1978 BDI 1-A
BDI-II Copyright 1996 Pearson

3. Age Group and Subject Areas
Have at least a 5th-6th grade reading level.
Age 13-80
Those who are showing symptoms of depression.
It is used to track symptoms and is a gauge to understand the severity of symptoms

4. How does this align with our needs – in our professional practice
We would use this to decide if a student needs referred to a licensed mental health professional (school psychologist)
We would not use this to diagnose, instead use it to determine the severity of the situation
*This addresses 3 and 5 on rubric

5. The Test
Measures the characteristic attitudes and symptoms of depression
21 Questions ranking the degree of the symptoms from 0-3
Each question has four statements that get more severe about a symptom of depression
These align with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders- Fourth Edition

6. Sample Question Question 1 0 - I don’t get more tired than usual.
1- I get tired more easily than I used to.
2- I get tired from doing almost anything.
3- I am too tired to do anything.

7. Scoring
1-10____________________These ups and downs are considered normal
11-16___________________ Mild mood disturbance
17-20___________________Borderline clinical depression
21-30___________________Moderate depression
31-40___________________Severe depression
over 40__________________Extreme depression

8. Establish Validity Construct Validity Content Validity
Convergent validity between BDI-1A and BDI-II
Correlation = 0.93
Content Validity
Aligned with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders -4th edition
Concurrent Validity
Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D), Zung Self- Rating Depression Scale (SDS), Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), and more

9. Reliability 1 week test-retest reliability
Outpatients (n=500) correlation coefficient = 0.92
College students (n=120) correlation coefficient =0.93
Internal Consistency between White and Mexican-American participants = 0.80

10. Strengths and Weaknesses
Reliable across ethnic groups
Use it again later to track symptoms
Positively correlated with other psychological test.
Concise and user friendly
May over-identify women and under-identify men
Easy to fake – intention of questions are obvious
Not enough discrepancy between options (0 & 1)
Doesn’t take into account major life events
Sampling
Aligns with DSM IV instead of DSM V

11. Interpretation

12. Interpretation

13. Summary
We realized that it is important to look at this assessment and any assessment from diverse perspectives.
Not good to use as a suicide screening tool
The results should not be scored by the test- taker unless resources are provided

14. References
Beck, A.T., Steer, R.A., & Brown, G.K. (1996) Beck depression inventory – II. Retrieved from depression-inventoryii-bdi-ii.html?Pid= &Mode=summary
Beck, A. T., Steer, R. A., & Brown, G. K. (1961). Beck depression inventory--II.
Medical University of South Carolina. (2012). Beck Depression Inventory. Retrieved from
Smith, C., Erford, B.T., (2001). Test review: beck depression inventory – II. Retrieved from
Wang, Y.P., & Gorenstein, C. (2013). Psychometric properties of the beck depression inventory-II: A comprehensive review. Revista Brasiliera de Psiquiatria, 35(4). Retrieved from &script=sci_arttext