Personality Assessment Inventory
Introduction
The Beck Depression Inventory is a testing tool which is used to evaluate the continuation and severity of the symptoms of depression, as recorded in the DSM-IV-TR (American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 2000). The test includes questions which asses the symptoms of serious depression, which may possibly call for hospitalization. The latest revised edition replaces the BDI and the BDI-1A, which includes items intending to indicate symptoms of severe depression, which may require hospitalization. Items include been distorted to specify increases or decreases in sleep and appetite. The most important purpose of the new version of the BDI was to have it conform more directly to the diagnostic criteria for depression.
Characteristics and Purposes
According to (Beck, Steer, & Brown, 2008) the 21 items self-report corresponds to a symptom of depression is summed to give a single score......

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