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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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Cognitive styles and life events in subsyndromal unipolar and bipolar disorders: Stability and prospective prediction of depressive and hypomanic mood swings.
Lauren B. Alloy,Noreen A. Reilly-Harrington,David M. Fresco,Wayne G. Whitehouse,Jeanne S. Zechmeister +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the interaction of cognitive styles and life events in predicting the depressive and hypomanic mood swings of 43 undergraduates meeting criteria for a subsyndromal mood disorder (i.e., cyclothymia, dysthymia or hypomania) or no lifetime diagnosis.
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Effect of early body image dissatisfaction on subsequent psychological and physical adjustment after disfiguring injury.
James A. Fauerbach,Leslie J. Heinberg,John W. Lawrence,Andrew M. Munster,Debra A. Palombo,Daniel Richter,Robert J. Spence,Sandra S. Stevens,Linda Ware,Thomas Muehlberger +9 more
TL;DR: Body image dissatisfaction affects quality of life after severe burn injury and distress moderates this impact on aspects of physical but not psychosocial health.
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Construct validity of the Beck Depression Inventory in a depressive population
TL;DR: The present findings generally lend support to the construct validity of the BDI in depressive populations.
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Impact of colorectal cancer on patient and family: Implications for care
Hortense Cotrim,M. Graça Pereira +1 more
TL;DR: It seems unquestionable that the presence of a stoma significantly alters the patients' quality of life, psychological morbidity, sexuality and body image and the stoma patients' caregivers suffer from high levels of anxiety and depression.
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Attachment insecurity and the distinction between unhappy spouses who do and do not divorce.
Joanne Davila,Thomas N. Bradbury +1 more
TL;DR: Results suggest that spouses at risk for stable, unhappy marriages can be identified early and may benefit from interventions that increase the security of spouses' attachment to each other.
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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.