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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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Can therapists be trained to improve their alliances? A preliminary study of alliance-fostering psychotherapy
Paul Crits-Christoph,Mary Beth Connolly Gibbons,Katherine Crits-Christoph,Julia Narducci,Megan Schamberger,Robert Gallop +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, therapists were trained in alliance-fostering therapy, a 16-session treatment for major depressive disorder that combines interpersonal-psychodynamic interventions with techniques for enhancing the alliance based on Bordin's model of the alliance.
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Depression and risk of sudden cardiac death after acute myocardial infarction: testing for the confounding effects of fatigue.
Jane Irvine,Antoni Basinski,Brian Baker,Stacey Jandciu,Miney Paquette,John A. Cairns,Stuart J. Connolly,Robin S. Roberts,Michael Gent,Paul Dorian +9 more
TL;DR: The trend for the cognitive-affective symptoms of depression to be associated with SCD risk, even after controlling for dyspnea/fatigue, suggests that the association between depression and mortality after AMI cannot be entirely explained as a confound of cardiac-related fatigue.
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Maintenance Phase Efficacy of Sertraline for Chronic Depression: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Martin B. Keller,James H. Kocsis,Michael E. Thase,Alan J. Gelenberg,A J Rush,Lorrin M. Koran,Alan F. Schatzberg,James A. Russell,Robert M. A. Hirschfeld,Daniel N. Klein,James P. McCullough,Jan Fawcett,Susan G. Kornstein,L LaVange,Wilma Harrison +14 more
TL;DR: Maintenance therapy with sertraline is well tolerated and has significant efficacy in preventing recurrence or reemergence of depression in chronically depressed patients.
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Appraised controllability as a moderator of the effectiveness of different coping strategies: A test of the goodness of fit hypothesis
TL;DR: In this article, the goodness of fit hypothesis was used to test the effectiveness of different coping strategies in situations perceived to be controllable and maladaptive, and found that high levels of emotion-focused coping have positive effects on adaptation in uncontrollable situations and negative effects in controllability situations.
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The course of postpartum depression: a review of longitudinal studies.
TL;DR: It is shown that although the majority of women recover from PPD, it becomes chronic in a relatively large subgroup of women, and several studies have identified risk factors predicting a chronic course of PPD.
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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.