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Clinical Pathways Resource Guide - CEIC

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Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS)<br />

Purpose: Designed to measure negative attitudes about the future; originally originally<br />

developed to predict who would<br />

commit suicide and who would not.<br />

<strong>Clinical</strong> utility: The Beck Hopelessness Scale is a 20-item 20 item assessment device designed to assess the extent of<br />

positive and negative beliefs about the future during the past week. week.<br />

It measures three aspects of<br />

hopelessness: feelings about the future, loss of motivation, and and<br />

expectations. There have been several<br />

studies that have supported the predictive validity of the BHS for for<br />

suicide attempts and completed suicide.<br />

Groups with whom this instrument has been used: Has been used with adolescents from age 13, but age 17<br />

and older is recommended.<br />

Norms? Yes.<br />

Format: Self-report Self report instrument, 20 true-false true false statements, written or oral.<br />

Administration time: 5-10 10 minutes.<br />

Scoring time: Score is calculated by summing the pessimistic responses for each each<br />

of the 20 items; 3 minutes.<br />

Computer scoring? No.<br />

Administrator training and qualifications: May be administered by a range of mental health workers but the the<br />

interpretation needs to be supervised by an appropriately trained trained<br />

clinical psychologist or psychiatrist.<br />

Fee for use: Complete kit $73.00 (includes manual, 25 record forms, and scoring scoring<br />

key).<br />

Available from: Harcourt Assessment, Inc.<br />

19500 Bulverde Road<br />

San Antonio, Texas 78259<br />

1-800 800-211 211-8378 8378<br />

http://harcourtassessment.com<br />

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