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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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Can therapists be trained to improve their alliances? A preliminary study of alliance-fostering psychotherapy

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.

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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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

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.