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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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Music therapy for depression
Sonja Aalbers,Laura Fusar-Poli,Ruth E. Freeman,Marinus Spreen,Johannes C.F. Ket,Annemiek C. Vink,Anna Maratos,Mike J. Crawford,Xi Jing Chen,Christian Gold +9 more
TL;DR: A meta-analysis examining short-term effects of music therapy for depression found moderate-quality evidence of large effects favouring music therapy and TAU over TAU alone for both clinician-rated depressive symptoms and secondary outcomes.
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Antepartum depressive symptomatology is associated with adverse obstetric and neonatal outcomes.
TL;DR: The findings add to this body of evidence, which together suggest an adverse impact of antepartum psychological morbidity on maternal and neonatal well-being, and suggest that growth retardation, premature delivery, and epidural analgesia may be associated with adverse obstetric and Neonatal outcomes.
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Assessing depression among persons with chronic pain using the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale and the Beck Depression Inventory : A comparative analysis
TL;DR: The results suggest that both questionnaires have good predictive validity among chronic pain patients, and decisions regarding the use of one questionnaire rather than the other may depend upon the goals of the user and the setting within which the questionnaire is used.
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Life satisfaction and suicide: a 20-year follow-up study.
Heli Koivumaa-Honkanen,Risto Honkanen,Heimo Viinamäki,Kauko Heikkilä,Jaakko Kaprio,Markku Koskenvuo +5 more
TL;DR: Life dissatisfaction has a long-term effect on the risk of suicide, and this seems to be partly mediated through poor health behavior.
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Empirically supported individual and group psychological treatments for adult mental disorders.
TL;DR: The experimental literature on individual and group psychological treatments for adult disorders is reviewed, and Behavioral and cognitive-behavioral treatments dominate the lists, especially in the anxiety disorders, with notable exceptions.
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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.