BADS: Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome DEX Questionnaires

The Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome (BADS) is an instrument designed for the assessment of executive function deficits related to Dysexecutive Syndrome (DES) in individuals with brain injury, cognitive impairment, or disorders affecting planning, organisation, problem solving, and attention. It helps clinicians gain a better understanding of how executive dysfunction impacts everyday life activities and rehabilitation potential. This tool provides professional teams with a framework that facilitates diagnostic evaluation of executive impairments and allows them to tailor rehabilitation and support strategies to the individual’s cognitive strengths and challenges.

Benefits:

  • Everyday Life Relevance: Assesses executive skills in tasks mirroring real-life demands to provide practical insights.

  • Sensitive to Frontal Lobe Damage: Targets capacities often impaired by frontal lobe injury, critical for rehabilitation planning.

  • Comprehensive Coverage: Includes multiple tasks assessing temporal judgement, rule shifting, problem solving, planning, and task management.

  • Includes Dysexecutive Questionnaire (DEX): Samples emotional, motivational, behavioural, and cognitive changes linked to executive dysfunction.

Key Features:

  • Temporal Judgement Task: Evaluates ability to estimate duration of common events.

  • Rule Shift Cards: Measures cognitive flexibility by requiring adaptation to changed rules.

  • Action Program Test: Practical problem solving using provided materials.

  • Key Search Task: Assesses strategy formulation and planning.

  • Zoo Map Test: Examines route planning in open-ended and structured scenarios.

  • Modified Six Elements Test: Measures task scheduling and performance monitoring.

  • Dysexecutive Questionnaire (DEX): 20-item self or informant-rated measure of executive-related behavioural changes.

Applications

  • Assessment of executive dysfunction following brain injury

  • Identification of planning, organisation, and problem-solving deficits

  • Rehabilitation planning and monitoring progress in cognitive recovery

  • Evaluating executive deficits in psychiatric populations such as schizophrenia

Price (excl. VAT):

€63.60

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