50 years of the Beck Depression Inventory: recommendations for using the Spanish adaptation of the BDI-II in clinical practice
The first Spanish adaptation of the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) was published in 2011. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of its first edition. In this time, the BDI has become the most widely used self-report instrument for assessing the severity of depression in Spai...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositorio: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/44986 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44986 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | 616.89 616.89.07 Depression Assessment BDI-II Clinical significance Screening Diagnosis Depresión Evaluación Significación clínica Cribado Diagnóstico Psiquiatría Psicología clínica y psicodiagnóstico Psicometría Psicología aplicada 3211 Psiquiatría 6101 Patología 6105.05 Psicometría |
| Sumario: | The first Spanish adaptation of the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) was published in 2011. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of its first edition. In this time, the BDI has become the most widely used self-report instrument for assessing the severity of depression in Spain and worldwide. This paper presents the basic characteristics of the BDI-II in relation with its previous versions (BDI-I and BDI-IA), describes the process of its adaptation to the Spanish population, summarizes the psychometric properties of this adaptation, and discusses its use in the clinical practice. To this use, guidelines and cut-off scores are proposed for measuring the severity of depression, for evaluating the clinical significance of therapeutic change, for screening for depression, and for aiding in the differential diagnosis of depressive disorders. |
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