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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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Impaired emotional facial expression recognition in alcoholics, opiate dependence subjects, methadone maintained subjects and mixed alcohol-opiate antecedents subjects compared with normal controls.

TL;DR: Results in OM and OA indicate that opiate dependence is also associated with an impaired EFE decoding but less than in alcoholism, indicating that EFE-decoding problems could reflect a more general emotional intelligence deficit in addicted populations.
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Alexithymia, social support and health problems.

TL;DR: It is concluded that alexithymia is associated with reduced perceived and network social support, that these associations are likely due to alexitymia-related deficiencies in social skills but that reduced social support does not account for the relationship between alexityymia and health problems.
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Caregiver burden in multiple sclerosis: the impact of neuropsychiatric symptoms

TL;DR: Caregivers of patients with MS experience high levels of distress and reduced quality of life related to caregiving, over and above the effect of disability due to neurological symptoms.
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Subjective and objective measures of insomnia in the context of traumatic brain injury: A preliminary study

TL;DR: TBI patients with insomnia have a tendency to overestimate their sleep disturbance compared to PSG measures of sleep, similar to those found in patients with either primary insomnia or insomnia related to depression.
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Dynamic association between negative affect and alcohol lapses following alcohol treatment.

TL;DR: The results supported the hypothesis that negative affect and alcohol lapses are dynamically linked and suggest that targeting the relationship between negative Affect and alcohol use could greatly decrease the probability of lapses and improve alcohol treatment outcomes.
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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.