The BASC-3 Behavioral and Emotional Screening System is designed for schools, mental health clinics, pediatric clinics, communities, and researchers to screen for a variety of behavioral and emotional disorders that can lead to adjustment problems.
Benefits
- Assess a wide array of behaviors that represent both behavioral problems and strengths.
- Use forms that can be completed in approximately five minutes or less, without the need for specialized training.
- Utilize Spanish-language versions of the parent and student self-report forms.
- Use Total Score on the report that is a reliable and accurate predictor of a broad range of behavioral, emotional and academic problems.
- Explore indexes that identify responses that may be overly negative or inconsistent.
Features
The BASC-3 BESS consists of three brief forms that range from 25 to 30 items and can be completed by teachers, parents, or students.
- Teacher form with two levels: Preschool (for ages 3 through 5) and Child/Adolescent (for Grades K through 12)
- Student self-report form with one level: Child/Adolescent (for Grades 3 through 12)
- Parent form with two levels: Preschool (for ages 3 through 5) and Child/Adolescent (for Grades K through 12)
- College Student self-report form with one level: ages 18-25 and is a part of the BASC-3 Q-global BESS Screener Report
- Requires no formal training for the raters and can be administered in just 5-10 minutes.
- Normed on a representative sample that closely matches recent U.S. Census population characteristics.
BESS College Student Self-Report Form
College and university leaders are increasingly concerned about the mental health needs of their students as they return to campus and encounter a "new normal." Students also are aware of their increasing mental health needs and looking to their colleges and universities to provide support. The BESS College Form provides a quick, efficient, valid, and reliable way for counseling centers and other student health services to screen large numbers of students while guaranteeing security and privacy.
Campus-wide mental health surveillance with the BESS provides information for meeting the individual mental health needs of students and for planning mental health prevention and promotion activities for the entire campus.
- Qualification level: B
- Completed by: Individual Age-range: 18–25 years
- Assesses: Mental well-being
- Administration Time: 5–10 minutes
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