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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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Sense of coherence in parents of children with different developmental disabilities.
Malin B. Olsson,C. P. Hwang +1 more
TL;DR: The SoC theory is valuable in understanding individual differences in psychological adaptation in parents of children with ID and the life situation of parenting a child with ID may have a negative impact on parents' SoC levels that will make them more vulnerable to experiencing stress and depression.
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Fetal Exposure to Maternal Depressive Symptoms Is Associated With Cortical Thickness in Late Childhood
TL;DR: Exposure to prenatal depression coupled with subsequent cortical thinning was associated with presence of externalizing behavior in preadolescent children and may be prodromal markers of risk for dysphoria.
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Self-help treatment for insomnia: bibliotherapy with and without professional guidance.
TL;DR: In this article, a self-help treatment (cognitive-behavioral bibliotherapy [BT]), with weekly phone consultations, or a waiting-list control (WL) group was used to treat primary insomnia.
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Psychological morbidity in the families of patients with cancer
TL;DR: Anger was significantly more common in the offspring, who perceived their families to have poorer communication, cohesion and more conflict than their parents, suggesting that information about the illness may not be adequately transmitted to them.
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Caregiver burden in partners of Vietnam War veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder.
TL;DR: Caregiver burden in 58 partners of Vietnam veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was examined and it was indicated that greater caregiver burden was associated with greater caregIVER psychological distress, dysphoria, and anxiety.
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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.