The BHPT is an inexpensive, easily administered rating instrument for the severity of depressive illnesses. It was administered to 31 patients diagnosed as suffering from one of the depressive group of illnesses, and to 36 non-depressed patients as controls. Weighted scores gave excellent discriminations between the two classes and re-testing measured recovery from depression. The BHPT is thus an excellent rating instrument, useful in clinical and psychopharmacological research and in the psychiatric training programs.
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