{"id":2113,"date":"2021-08-12T13:31:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T12:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=2113"},"modified":"2021-08-12T13:31:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T12:31:15","password":"","slug":"beck-depression-inventory-bdi","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/beck-depression-inventory-bdi\/","title":{"rendered":"Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Perhaps the most famous and successful therapy self-report instrument ever.  Started with the paper Beck, A. T., Ward, C. H., Mendelson, M., Mock, J., &amp; Erbaugh, J. (1961). An inventory for measuring depression. <em>Archives of General Psychiatry<\/em>, <em>4<\/em>, 561\u2013571. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/archpsyc.1961.01710120031004\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/archpsyc.1961.01710120031004<\/a> about the first 21 item version of the measure.  Relatively unusually for a much used measure, the BDI has had two versions historically and the BDI-I has been superseded by the BDI-II, still a 21 item measure.  See Beck, A. T., Steer, R. A., Ball, R., &amp; Ranieri, W. F. (1996). Comparison of Beck Depression Inventories-IA and-II in Psychiatric Outpatients. <em>Journal of Personality Assessment<\/em>, <em>67<\/em>(3), 588\u2013597. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1207\/s15327752jpa6703_13\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1207\/s15327752jpa6703_13<\/a>.  Like its sibling measure, the BAI, the BDI is a commercial measure owned by Pearson, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pearsonassessments.com\/store\/usassessments\/en\/Store\/Professional-Assessments\/Personality-%26-Biopsychosocial\/Beck-Depression-Inventory-II\/p\/100000159.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chapters<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapters 3, 4 and 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the most famous and successful therapy self-report instrument ever. Started with the paper Beck, A. T., Ward, C. H., Mendelson, M., Mock, J., &amp; Erbaugh, J. (1961). An inventory for measuring depression. Archives of General Psychiatry, 4, 561\u2013571. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/archpsyc.1961.01710120031004 about the first 21 item version of the measure. Relatively unusually for a much used &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/beck-depression-inventory-bdi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[18],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"knowledge_base":[],"class_list":["post-2113","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-om-book"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":126,"total_views":"2362","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"chris","author_nicename":"chris","author_url":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/author\/chris\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"All OM book glossary entries","term_url":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary\/non-knowledgebase\/om-book\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2114,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2113\/revisions\/2114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}