BASC-3 Behavioral and Emotional Screening System

Also available on Review 360

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The BASC-3 Behavioral and Emotional Screening System is designed for schools, pediatric practices, behavioral health providers, communities, and researchers to screen for a variety of behavioral and emotional competencies and challenges. It is a core tool of any prevention and early intervention program seeking to detect mental health risk early, before adjustment problems become severe and require invasive and expensive mental health treatment.

Benefits

• Assess a wide array of behaviors that represent both internalizing and externalizing problems and prosocial and interpersonal competencies that promote wellness.
• 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 validity indexes that identify overly negative or inconsistent ratings.
• Use In conjunction with "Review 360" or Q Global to provide easy and efficient remote screening, scoring, and data reporting and dashboards 

Features

The BASC-3 BESS consists of three brief forms that range from 25 to 30 questions 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.
• Questions on all forms have been evaluated and continuously improved and updated through use with millions of youth over the past two decades.

BESS College Student Self-Report Form

College and university leaders are increasingly concerned about the mental health needs of their students. 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, acceptable, and accurate way for counseling centers and student health services to screen large numbers of students while guaranteeing security and privacy.

Campus-wide student mental health checks with the BESS provide 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: Behavioral health status and wellness
• Administration Time: 5–10 minutes

Learn more

The following resources are available for BASC-3 BESS:

The following sample reports are available for BASC-3 BESS.