BASIS-24 Case Studies

Assessment of Outcome Lucy came into therapy wanting to work on relational difficult and to identify better relationship boundaries. Throughout the course of our work, Lucy has made progress. Three months into therapy, she reported feeling much better, able to assert her needs more in relationship (e.g., doing things for herself), and better at establishing boundaries with new friend. She has a new friend who moved in next-door and reported applying what she learned in therapy to that new relationship by paying closer attention to when her friend crossed boundaries. Her scores on the Behavior and Symptom Identification Scale 24 (BASIS-24) also reflected the progress. The BASIS-24 is a self-report questionnaire based on the BASIS-32 that was developed in the early 1980’s to assess the
Clients are required to take the questionnaire at intake and then once or twice throughout the course of treatment. Lucy took the questionnaire at intake and then again three months later. Figure X shown her scores from both times and demonstrated a decrease in Lucy’s overall symptoms from 2.2 to 1.9. Given the focus on treatment was on relationships up to the second administration of the BASIS-24, the subscale, Interpersonal Relationship, shown the most improvement from 2.8 down to 1.7. Sample questions for this subscale reflects how well Lucy feel she got along with people in her family or in social situation, had someone to turn to if needed help, and feel close to someone during the past week. The subscale with the least changes was the emotional lability that remains the same over the course of three months at 2.6. The emotional lability questions are connected to Lucy’s PTSD and for changes to occur, we will need to address her relational difficulties at the source by examining her hidden feelings and connection to past figure (Malan & Della Selva,