BASC-4 Behavioral and Emotional Screening System
BASC-4 BESS
The BASC-4 Behavioral and Emotional Screening System (BASC-4 BESS) is used by school districts and behavioural health professionals to efficiently assess the behavioural health of millions of youths each year. The BESS screening forms are quick to administer and well tolerated by students, teachers, and parents. They provide reliable insights into the behavioural and emotional strengths and challenges of children and adolescents from preschool through college.Order now and save 10% with our prepublication discount on kits through June 30. Current price reflects the 10% discount.- Date de publication:
- 2026
- Groupe d’âge:
- 3:0–18:11 (Teacher and Parent Forms); 8:0–18:11 (Student Form); 18:00–25:11 (College Student Form)
- Niveau de lecture:
- Parent Form—Grade 6; Student Form—Grade 2
- Notation/Interprétation:
- T scores and percentiles for a general population
- Niveau de qualification:
- B
- Temps de passation:
- 5–10 minutes
- Options de notation:
- Q-global® web-based administration, scoring, and reporting.
- Autres langues:
- Spanish (Parent, Teacher, and Student Child and Adolescent Forms)
The BASC-4 Behavioral and Emotional Screening System (BESS) incorporates the latest norms, updated items and content, and new reporting options. In addition to the parent and student forms, which are available in BASC-–3 in Spanish, now the teacher forms are offered in Spanish as well.
The BASC-4 (BESS) is designed for schools, pediatric practices, behavioural health providers, communities, and researchers to screen for a variety of behavioural and emotional competencies and challenges. It is an essential tool for any prevention and early intervention program seeking to detect mental health risk early, when challenges are more easily addressed.
Benefits
- Assesses a wide array of behaviours that represent both internalizing and externalizing problems and prosocial and interpersonal competencies that promote wellness.
- Features forms that can be completed in approximately 5–10 minutes without specialized training.
- Offers Spanish-language versions of the Parent Forms , Teacher Forms, and Student Forms.
- Provides a Total Score on the report that is a reliable and accurate predictor of a broad range of behavioural, emotional, and academic problems.
- Includes validity indexes to identify overly negative or inconsistent ratings.
Features
The BASC-4 BESS consists of brief forms that range from 25 to 30 questions and are completed by teachers, parents, or students.
- Teacher Form: Preschool (for ages 3:00–5:11) and Child/Adolescent (for Grades K–12)
- Student Form : Child/Adolescent (for Grades 3–12)
- Parent Form with two levels: Preschool (for ages 3:00–5:11) and Child/Adolescent (for Grades K–12)
- College Student Form: ages 18:00–25:11
- 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.
- Item content that is well-tolerated by students, parents and teachers as a result of use with millions of youths over the past two decades
BESS College Student 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 look to their colleges and universities to provide support. The BESS College Student Form provides a quick, reliable, and confidential way for counseling centers and student health services to screen large numbers of students.
Campuswide mental health checks using the BESS provide valuable information for addressing individual student needs and for planning prevention and promotion activities for the entire campus.
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