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Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale |Y-BOCS A Psychological Assessment|

The Y-BOCS is a 10-question tool used to measure the severity of OCD symptoms, like obsessions and compulsions, over the past week. Developed to track OCD progress in treatment, the Y-BOCS is a reliable and valid assessment. Higher scores indicate greater OCD symptom severity.

Mar 13, 2017 1 min read
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The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) is a 10-item scale designed to measure the severity and type of symptoms in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) over the past seven days. The symptoms assessed are obsessions and compulsions. This scale is useful in tracking OCD symptoms at intake and during/after treatment. 

This scale was validated by Goodman et al. (1989b) who found that the Y-BOCS was significantly correlated with two independent measures of OCD. The same study also showed that the Y-BOCS is sensitive to changes in OCD symptoms. The Y-BOCS also has high internal consistency and high interrater reliability (Goodman et al., 1989a).

Total Y-BOCS scores range from 0 to 40, with higher scores indicating greater severity of OCD symptoms. Scores on the obsession and compulsion sub scales range from 0 to 20, but only the total Y-BOCS score is interpreted. Total scores can be split into five categories, based on severity of symptoms.

Please use the link below to complete payment for the assessment. 

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