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

outpatients, 40 patients were diagnosed with anxiety disorders (Beck & Steer, 1990, p. 3-11).
The sample norms are for patients who are experiencing panic disorders with or without agoraphobia, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and generalized anxiety (Beck, 1993).

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.

5-27).
Testing has a clinical norm sample (Beck, Steer, and Brown 1993).
The next assessment required, was the NEO Personality Inventory-3 (NEO-PI-III). This assessment measures the traits of an individual’s personality. This assessment contains five domains called Neuroticism (N), Extraversion (E), Openness (O), Agreeableness (A), and Conscientiousness (C). Additionally, the assessment can be administered individually or in groups. The administrator must be a professional who is familiar with the basic knowledge of psychological testing and apprehensive of the what the scales measure and the implications for the psychological functioning of the individual (Costa & McCrae, 2010).
The validity of this assessment is to measure the five major domains of personality. On the other hand, the reliability is that it accurately examines the clients highest and lowest domains. The norm sample of this assessment is that it expands across ages, cultures, and methods of measurements (Costa & McCrae, 2010).