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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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Research on Religion-Accommodative Counseling: Review and Meta-Analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis examined data from five studies (N = 111) that compared the efficacy of standard approaches to counseling for depression with religion-accommodative approaches.
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Assessment of mood: guides for clinicians

TL;DR: Although the rating scales for mood represent a well-trodden terrain, this brief review of the most frequently used scales in the literature revealed there is still some room for improvement and for further research, especially with regard to their clinical interpretability.
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The Community Reinforcement Approach

TL;DR: The Community Reinforcement Approach, originally developed for individuals with alcohol use disorders, has been successfully employed to treat a variety of substance use disorders for more than 35 years and in the past 10–15 years, scientific evidence for two off-shoots of CRA that are based on the same operant mechanism are obtained.
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Pain-related catastrophizing as a risk factor for suicidal ideation in chronic pain.

TL;DR: These are the first findings to suggest a unique (e.g., independent of pain severity or depressive symptomatology) association between pain‐coping strategies and suicide‐related cognitions in the context of chronic pain.
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Transactional processes in child disruptive behavior and maternal depression: A longitudinal study from early childhood to adolescence

TL;DR: Results indicated that early child noncompliance was the most robust predictor of more chronic and elevated trajectories of maternal depression, which in turn discriminated teacher and youth reports of adolescent antisocial behavior but not internalizing 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.