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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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How Well Does Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Treat Symptoms of Complex PTSD? An Examination of Child Sexual Abuse Survivors Within A Clinical Trial
TL;DR: It is found that cognitive-behavioral therapies are effective for patients with complex trauma histories and symptoms patterns, and there were no differences between the two groups at posttreatment once pretreatment scores were covaried.
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Salivary cortisol in response to acute social rejection and acceptance by peers.
TL;DR: Results indicate that social rejection causes psychological distress, but highly defensive individuals appear to be less susceptible than less defensive individuals to increases in salivary cortisol after acute social rejection.
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Processes of Change in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Therapy for Depression: A Mediation Reanalysis of Zettle and Rains
TL;DR: This study presents a reanalysis of data from Zettle and Rains that compared 12 weeks of group CT with group ACT and adds additional evidence that ACT works through distinct and theoretically specified processes that are not the same as CT.
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Anhedonia and emotional numbing in combat veterans with PTSD.
TL;DR: Results were consistent with research on the distinction of appetitive and aversive functioning, providing insight into the nature of PTSD, and found evidence for a two-factor solution, leading to anhedonia and undifferentiated, global depressive symptoms scales.
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Nine years after child sexual abuse
Heather Y. Swanston,Angela M. Plunkett,Brian I. O'Toole,Sandra Shrimpton,Patrick Parkinson,R. Kim Oates +5 more
TL;DR: Sexually abused young people performed more poorly than non-abused young people on psychometric tests of depression, self-esteem, anxiety, behavior, and despair, and treatment may also need to address the family's functioning and the individual's feelings of despair.
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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.