Outcome Measures

Question 1

Give two generic anxiety scales.

Answer 1

Beck Anxiety Inventory

State-Trait Anxiety Inventory

Question 2

When would you use the Beck Inventories?

Answer 2

Sessionally

Question 3

What are the Beck Inventories?

Answer 3

Beck Depression Inventory (Beck et al., 1961)

Beck Anxiety Inventory (Beck et al., 1988)

Question 4

What is the Hopelessness Scale (Beck et al., 1974)?

Answer 4

To check for suicidal intent

Question 5

What measure can you use for suicidal intent?

Answer 5

Hopelessness Scale (Beck et al., 1974)

Question 6

What measure could you use for agoraphobia and panic?

Answer 6

Agoraphobia Cognitions Questionnaire (Chambless et al., 1984)
Fear Questionnaire (Marks & Mathews, 1979)

Question 7

What does the Agoraphobia Cognitions Questionnaire measure?

Answer 7

Catastrophic misinterpretations about the negative consequences of anxiety.

Question 8

What does the Fear Questionnaire (Marks & Mathews, 1979) measure?

Answer 8

Three phobia subscores - agoraphobia, blood-injury phobia, social phobia

Question 9

What measure could you use for Health Anxiety?

Answer 9

Illness Attitude Scale (Kellner, 1986)

Question 10

What does the Illness Attitude Scale (Kellner, 1986) measure?

Answer 10

Concerns about death, pain, illness and bodily preoccupation. Helpful for highlighting areas for treatment.

Question 11

What can you use to measure social phobia?

Answer 11

Fear of Negative Evaluation (FNE) and Social Avoidance and Distress (SAD) scales (Watson & Friend, 1969)

Question 12

What could you use to measure GAD?

Answer 12

Anxious Thoughts Inventory (AnTI; Wells, 1994)

Question 13

What can you use to measure OCD?

Answer 13

Maudsley Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory (Hodgson & Rachman, 1977)