Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation® (BSS®) is an evaluation of suicidal thinking that helps identify individuals at risk. It also helps measure a broad spectrum of attitudes and behaviours. Guidance on using this test in your telepractice 
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Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation
BSS
Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation® (BSS®) is an evaluation of suicidal thinking that helps identify individuals at risk. It also helps measure a broad spectrum of attitudes and behaviours. Guidance on using this test in your telepracticeOverview
Product Details
Resources
- Publication date:
- 1991
- Age range:
- 17 years and older
- Qualification level:
- B
- Completion time:
- 5 to 10 minutes
- Scoring options:
-
Manual Scoring or Q-global™ Scoring & Reporting
- Telepractice:
- Guidance on using this test in your telepractice
The BSS measures attitudes and behaviors that clinicians routinely consider when assessing a patient’s suicide risk.
Benefits
- Reveals specific suicidal characteristics that require greater clinical scrutiny.
- Can be administered with the BDI®-II and the BHS® for a more complete evaluation.
- Five screening items reduce the length and the intrusiveness of the questionnaire for patients who are nonsuicidal.
- Full scale consists of 21 test items.
Sample Reports
Concise Interpretive reports provide useful information such as the client's demographics, a graphical presentation of the client's raw score, a brief interpretation of the client's test score and a list of items endorsements. Progress reports help monitor a client's progress over time.
The following resource is available for BSS:
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