Beck Anxiety Inventory Case Study

To gather Heather’s anxiety measurements, the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) was administered (Beck, 1993). The assessment is a 21-item report that scores the levels of anxiety in adolescents and adults. The ranges for the assessment scores are minimal anxiety (0-7), mild anxiety (8-15), moderate anxiety (16-25), and severe anxiety (26-63). The test must be administered and score by a professional. Although, Beck and Steer (1990) disclose that the assessment can be interpreted by a professional who obtained a proper clinical mental health training (Beck & Steer, 1990, p. 1-3)

The assessment’s validity is the various aspects of anxiety such as dysthymic/atypical depression, panic attacks, social/simple phobia, generalized anxiety, and academic/adjustment disorders. The reliability of the assessment showed that out of 160 diagnostically mixed

To obtain Heathers depression measurements, we used the Beck Depression Inventory-2 (BDI-II) (Beck, Steer, & Brown, 1993). This assessment is a 21 item self-report that measures the severity of depression in adults and adolescent ages 13 and older. The ranges of the scores are minimal (0-13), mild (14-19), moderate (20-28), and severe (29-63). This inventory was created to assist with properly diagnosing depressive disorders (Beck, Steer, & Brown, 1996, p. 2-8).

The BDI-II reports to have a higher reliability than the first Becks Depression Inventory (BDI) (Beck, Steer, Brown, 1993). Furthermore, the assessment validity is examining the attitudes/moods, sense of failure, self-dissatisfaction, guilt, self-accusations, suicidal thoughts, crying, irritability, social withdrawal, indecisiveness, body image change, work difficulty, insomnia, fatigability, loss of appetite, and somatic preoccupation (Beck, Steer, & Brown, 1996, p.