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Psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory: Twenty-five years of evaluation
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A meta-analysis of the BDI's internal consistency estimates yielded a mean coefficient alpha of 0.86 for psychiatric patients and 0.81 for non-psychiatric subjects as mentioned in this paper.About:
This article is published in Clinical Psychology Review.The article was published on 1988-01-01. It has received 11149 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Beck Depression Inventory.read more
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Dysphoria-related bias in maternal ratings of children
TL;DR: Results support an emotion-appraisal model predicting dysphoric bias and relationships between mothers' dysphoria and descriptions of the control child showed small but significant dysphoria-related bias.
Nightmare Prevalence, Nightmare Distress, and Self-Reported Psychological Disturbance PARASOMNIA
Ross Levin,Gary Fireman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between nightmare prevalence, nightmare distress, and self-reported psychological disturbance, and concluded that it is not the incidence of nightmares which is associated with poorer waking psychological functioning, but the reported distress associated with the nightmare experience which is the critical variable in predicting higher psychological disturbance.
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The birth experience and women's postnatal depression: A systematic review
Aleeca F. Bell,Ewa Andersson +1 more
TL;DR: The weight of evidence suggests that a negative birth experience may contribute to postnatal depression.
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Physical activity in chronic fatigue syndrome assessment and its role in fatigue
Jan H. Vercoulen,E. Bazelmans,C.M.A. Swanink,J.F.M. Fennis,J.M.D. Galama,Peter Joseph Jongen,Otto R. Hommes,J.W.M. van der Meer,Gijs Bleijenberg +8 more
TL;DR: Although CFS patients have similar low activity levels than MS patients, there are also important differences between both groups: in CFS cognitive factors are more prominently involved in producing the lowActivity levels than in MS and in C FS patients activity level is related to fatigue but not in MS.
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Predictors of outcome in exposure-based cognitive and behavioral treatments for phobic and anxiety disorders in children*
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined predictors of exposure-based cognitive and behavioral treatments for phobic and anxiety disorders in children and adolescents and found that the best predictor of treatment outcome were depression and trait anxiety in the child and several psychological symptoms in the parent (e.g., depression, hostility, paranoia).
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An inventory for measuring depression
TL;DR: The difficulties inherent in obtaining consistent and adequate diagnoses for the purposes of research and therapy have been pointed out and a wide variety of psychiatric rating scales have been developed.
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A rating scale for depression
TL;DR: The present scale has been devised for use only on patients already diagnosed as suffering from affective disorder of depressive type, used for quantifying the results of an interview, and its value depends entirely on the skill of the interviewer in eliciting the necessary information.
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Cognitive Therapy of Depression
Steven D. Hollon,Aaron T. Beck +1 more
TL;DR: Hollon and Shaw as discussed by the authors discuss the role of emotions in Cognitive Therapy and discuss the integration of homework into Cognitive Therapy, and discuss problems related to Termination and Relapse.
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A self-rating depression scale.
TL;DR: The general depression scales used were felt to be insufficient for the purpose of this research project and the more specific scales were also inadequate.
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Depression: Causes and Treatment
Aaron T. Beck,Brad A. Alford +1 more
TL;DR: The definition of Depression is explained and a treatment plan for treatment and analysis of the causes and treatments are outlined.