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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.
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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.

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Enhancing treatment adherence with a specialized emergency room program for adolescent suicide attempters.

TL;DR: Adherence was significantly improved by receiving the specialized care program in the emergency room and was also associated with increased suicidal ideation, more cohesive family relations, and lower self-esteem at baseline.
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Psychometric Properties of the Posttraumatic Cognitions Inventory (PTCI): a replication with motor vehicle accident survivors.

TL;DR: The PTCI seems to be a promising measure of negative and dysfunctional posttrauma cognitions, which deserves continuing attention, and difficulties with the subscale representing self-blame emerged.
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Motor and cognitive aspects of motor retardation in depression

TL;DR: Findings suggest that a subgroup of depressed patients exhibit motor retardation that is behaviorally similar to parkinsonian bradykinesia and may stem from a similar disruption within the basal ganglia.
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Validation of the Spanish versions of the long (26 items) and short (12 items) forms of the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS)

TL;DR: The Spanish versions of the long and short forms of the Self-Compassion Scale are valid and reliable instruments for the evaluation of self-compassion among the general population and substantiate the use of this scale in research and clinical practice.
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Neural signatures of semantic and phonemic fluency in young and old adults

TL;DR: Functional integrity and efficient recruitment of left frontal language areas seems to be critical for successful word retrieval in old age.
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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

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

TL;DR: The definition of Depression is explained and a treatment plan for treatment and analysis of the causes and treatments are outlined.