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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 trauma therapy for battered women with PTSD: preliminary findings.
TL;DR: CTT-BW was efficacious across ethnic backgrounds and PTSD remitted in 30 of 32 women who completed CTT-BW, and issues related to disseminability of C TT-BW are discussed.
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Sensitivity and Specificity of Depression Questionnaires in a College-Age Sample.
Glenn D. Shean,Gretchen Baldwin +1 more
TL;DR: The authors evaluated the sensitivity and specificity of the Beck Depression Inventory-II and CES-D questionnaires for a college-student sample to indicate satisfactory levels of specificity and positive predictive value for current, past-year, and lifetime depressive disorder ratings on the Diagnostic Interview Schedule-IV (American Psychiatric Association, 1994).
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Reduced caudate gray matter volume in women with major depressive disorder.
TL;DR: The present results suggest that smaller volume of the caudate nucleus may be related to the pathophysiology of MDD and may account for abnormalities of the cortico-striatal-pallido-thalamic loop in MDD.
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Memory functioning in patients with primary fibromyalgia and major depression and healthy controls
TL;DR: Both major depressed and FM patients were significantly impaired on long-term memory tasks requiring effortful processing, compared to healthy controls.
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A psychometric evaluation of the BDI-II in treatment-seeking substance abusers.
TL;DR: The study supported the use of the BDI-II for the assessment of depression in chemically dependent male patients entering a residential treatment program at a VAMC facility, provided population-specific normative data is utilized for making clinical decisions.
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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.