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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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Prolonged exposure versus dynamic therapy for adolescent PTSD: a pilot randomized controlled trial.

TL;DR: PE-A exhibited a greater decrease of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression symptom severity and a greater increase in global functioning than did TDLP-A and brief individual therapy is effective in decreasing posttraumatic distress and behavioral trauma-focused components enhance efficacy.
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The relation of religious belief and practices, depression, and hopelessness in persons with clinical depression.

TL;DR: Through the relation of religious belief to lower levels of hopelessness, religious belief was indirectly related to less depression and there was also a small direct positive association of belief with depression, pointing to the complexity of the role belief plays for religious persons.
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Time Course of Attention for Alcohol Cues in Abstinent Alcoholic Patients: The Role of Initial Orienting

TL;DR: Results show that, subsequent to initial visual orienting to alcohol-related cues, abstinent patients' attention was disengaged from these stimuli, thus suggesting a visual approach-disengagement attentional pattern.
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Depressive symptoms in the late postpartum among low socioeconomic status women

TL;DR: Health practitioners should recognize that high depressive symptomatology frequently occurs among low socioeconomic status first-time mothers at six months postpartum, and chronic stressors and inadequate social support are the most important factors associated with this problem.
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Responsiveness in interactions of mothers and sons with ADHD: relations to maternal and child characteristics.

TL;DR: Controlling for all other variables, maternal responsiveness displayed a unique negative association with mother-reported child conduct problems, but not with child ADHD symptoms, and also was negatively related to maternal depressive symptoms.
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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.