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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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Psychological effect of witnessed resuscitation on bereaved relatives

TL;DR: There were no reported adverse psychological effects among the relatives who witnessed resuscitation, all of whom were satisfied with their decision to remain with the patient and the clinical team became convinced of the benefits of allowing them to witness resuscitation if they wished.
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The effects of the Triple P-positive Parenting Program on preschool children with co-occurring disruptive behavior and attentional/hyperactive difficulties.

TL;DR: Two variants of a behavioral family intervention program known as Triple P were compared using 87 preschoolers with co-occurring disruptive behavior and attentional/hyperactive difficulties, and the enhanced program was not shown to be superior to the standard program using any of the outcome measures at either postintervention or follow-up.
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Adaptation to Chronic Childhood Illness

TL;DR: A multidimensional framework for examining the development and adaptation of children with chronic illness, encompassing biomedical, psychological, and socio-ecological factors is introduced.
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Anxiety in children: Perceived family environments and observed family interaction

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed differences between families with a child diagnosed with anxiety disorder and control families on self-report measures of parenting and independent observers' ratings of family interaction.
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Parenting Stress, Child Behavior Problems, and Dysphoria in Parents of Children with Autism, Down Syndrome, Behavior Disorders, and Normal Development.

TL;DR: Differences in parental reports of parenting stress, child behavior problems, and dysphoria in 150 families who had children with autism, behavior disorders, Down syndrome, or normal development are assessed.
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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.