Asked by RACHEL liperote on Sep 28, 2024

The BDI-II has shown high reliability and fairly good validity, including convergent validity with depressed clients who took the BDI and the BDI-II.

BDI-II

The Beck Depression Inventory-II, a widely used 21-item self-report inventory measuring the severity of depression.

Convergent Validity

The degree to which two measures of constructs that theoretically should be related, are in fact related.

  • Examine the key psychometric properties, reliability and validity, of various tools used in assessing personality.
  • Recognize the importance of evaluating personality traits in planning treatments and making diagnoses.