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Prevention of Depressive Symptoms in Schoolchildren: Two-Year Follow-Up
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After teaching cognitive and social-problem-solving techniques designed to prevent depressive symptoms, this article followed 69 fifth and sixth-grade children at risk for depression for 2 years and compared these children with 49 children in a matched no-treatment control group.Abstract:
After teaching cognitive and social-problem-solving techniques designed to prevent depressive symptoms, we followed 69 fifth- and sixth-grade children at risk for depression for 2 years We compared these children with 49 children in a matched no-treatment control group The prevention group reported fewer depressive symptoms through the 2-year followup, and moderate to severe symptoms were reduced by half Surprisingly, the effects of the prevention program grew larger after the program was over We suggest that psychological immunization against depression can occur by teaching cognitive and social skills to children as they enter pubertyread more
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Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities
TL;DR: Mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) disorders—which include depression, conduct disorder, and substance abuse—affect large numbers of young people.
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The future of optimism.
TL;DR: Optimism promises to be one of the important topics of interest to positive social science, as long as it is approached in an even-handed way.
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Positive Education: Positive Psychology and Classroom Interventions.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the story of teaching resilience, positive emotion, engagement and meaning to an entire school in Australia, and they speculate that positive education will form the basis of a new prosperity, a politics that values both wealth and well-being.
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Strengths of character and well-being
TL;DR: This paper investigated the relationship between various character strengths and life satisfaction among 5,299 adults from three Internet samples using the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VINSS) and found that strong character strengths associated with life satisfaction were hope, zest, gratitude, love, and curiosity.
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Development of gender differences in depression: an elaborated cognitive vulnerability-transactional stress theory.
TL;DR: A developmentally sensitive, elaborated cognitive vulnerability-transactional stress model of depression is proposed to explain the "big fact" of the emergence of the gender difference in depression during adolescence.
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The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations.
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TL;DR: This article seeks to make theorists and researchers aware of the importance of not using the terms moderator and mediator interchangeably by carefully elaborating the many ways in which moderators and mediators differ, and delineates the conceptual and strategic implications of making use of such distinctions with regard to a wide range of phenomena.
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Asymptotic Confidence Intervals for Indirect Effects in Structural Equation Models
TL;DR: For comments on an earlier draft of this chapter and for detailed advice I am indebted to Robert M. Hauser, Halliman H. Winsborough, Toni Richards, several anonymous reviewers, and the editor of this volume as discussed by the authors.
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Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders
TL;DR: In cognitive therapy, a person's psychological difficulties stem from his own erroneous assumptions and faulty concepts of himself and the world as mentioned in this paper, and such a person can be helped to recognize and correct distortions in thinking that cause his emotional disturbance.
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Reason and emotion in psychotherapy
TL;DR: In what case do you like reading so much? What about the type of the reason and emotion in psychotherapy book? The needs to read? Well, everybody has their own reason why should read some books as mentioned in this paper.