Process-Based Assessment Tool (PBAT)

Download the PBAT at https://pbatsupport.com

References:

Ciarrochi, J., Hayes, S. C., & Hofmann, S. G. (2021). Assessing Processes of Change in Psychological Interventions: The Process-Based Assessment Tool (PBAT). PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2pbcf The PBAT is in the appendix.

Ciarrochi, J., Sahdra, B., Hofmann, S., & Hayes, S. C. (2022). Developing an item pool to assess processes of change in psychological interventions: The Process-Based Assessment Tool (PBAT). Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 23, 200-213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2022.02.001

Sanford, B.T., Ciarrochi, J., Hofmann, S.G., Gates, K.M., & Hayes, S.C. (2022). Toward empirical process-based case conceptualization: An idionomic network examination of the process-based assessment tool. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 25, 10-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2022.05.006

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PBAT - German

The PBAT German translation is at https://pbatsupport.com/free-download/

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PBAT - Italian

The PBAT Italian translation is at https://pbatsupport.com/free-download/

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PBAT - Korean

Jo, D., Im, S., Lee, E., Sundström, F. & Yang, E. (2025 in press). From diagnostic criteria to change processes: validation of the Korean process-based assessment tool using a machine learning approach. Cognitive Therapy and Research. DOI: 10.1007/s10608-025-10693-z

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PBAT - Polish

Cyniak-Cieciura, M., Dudek, J., & Ostaszewski, P. (2024). The Polish version of the Process-Based Assessment Tool (PBAT)—The measure of processes of change in psychological interventions. Plos one, 19(6), e0304661. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0304661 The PBAT Polish Version is in the Supporting information File S1.

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PBAT - Portuguese

Talask, G., de Oliveira Paveltchuk, F., Silva Cardoso Diogo, C. A. ., de Lemos, V. do C. O., Sengès Carreras, L., Thomaz da Costa, R., Egidio Nardi, A., Neufeld, C. B., & Regine de Carvalho, M. (2024). Tradução e adaptação transcultural da ferramenta de avaliação baseada em processos (PBAT) para o português brasileiro: uma abordagem metodológica para garantir a equivalência linguística e cultural. Revista Interamericana De Psicología/Interamerican Journal of Psychology, 58(3), e2028. DOI: 10.30849/ripijp.v58i3.2028

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PBAT - Romanian

Popa, C. O., Schenk, A., Cojocaru, C. M., Gyorgy, M., Sava, F. A., Marian, Ș., Popoviciu, H., & Szasz, S. (2025). A Transdiagnostic Approach in Psychodiagnosis: The Romanian Adaptation of the Process-Based Assessment Tool (PBAT). Behavioral Sciences, 15(12), 1697. DOI: 10.3390/bs15121697

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PBAT - Spanish

Goicoechea, C., Wallman-Jones, A., Ciarrochi, J., Hayes, S. C., Hofmann, S. G., & Perakakis, P. (2024, July 25). Development and validation of the Spanish Process-Based Assessment Tool (PBAT). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/y35sv The Spanish translation is in Appendix I.

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PBAT - Swedish

Larsson, A.B. & Sundström, F.T.A. (2024). Optimizing process-based therapy: A Boruta-driven approach to Identifying key clinical outcomes in a Swedish validation of the process-based assessment tool (PBAT). Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 33, 100794. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2024.100794 The Swedish translation is in Appendix A.

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