Behavioral and

Emotional Rating
Scale (BERS 2) Gabi Quintero & Cindy Hoang

Why?
Who? The Behavioral and Emotional
Rating Scale (BERS 2) was designed
BERS-2 is designed to provide an to provide an assessment of
assessment of emotional and emotional and behavioral strengths
behavioral strengths in children 5-18 in children.
yrs. of age
It is to be completed by parents,
teachers, counselors, direct service
provider or other individuals who
had frequent contact with the child

What?
57-item youth rating scale for children 11 to
18 years of age to evaluate their own
strengths

Pros/Cons 57-item parent rating scale for parents or

caregivers of children 5 to 18 years of age
Pros:
evaluates a wide variety of 8 open-ended questions are included in each
different environments for a form to elaborate on the child’s academic,
comprehensive assessment social, athletic family and community
gives parents and teachers to strengths
provide positive strengths
about a student
Measures strengths for use in
IEPs or interventions.
Cons:
BERS-2 contains four forms for
parents, teacher, student, and a
summary
terms need to be defined such as
"appropriate language" and "nice
to others"
 Behavioral and
Emotional Rating
Scale (BERS 2) Gabi Quintero & Cindy Hoang

Applications/Uses

1. To identify children with limited strengths

2. To target goals for an IEP or individual treatment plan
3. To identify strengths and weaknesses for intervention
4. To document progress in a strength area as a consequence of
specialized services
5. To measure strengths in research and evaluation projects

Scoring
Interpersonal Strength (IS)

Family Involvement (FI)

Intrapersonal Strength (IaS)

School Functioning (SF)

Affective Strength (AS)

Supplemental Career Strength (CS)