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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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Ethnic differences in pain tolerance: clinical implications in a chronic pain population.
TL;DR: The present results suggest that enhanced sensitivity to noxious stimuli on the part of African Americans may be associated with ethnic differences in reported clinical pain, although the magnitude of ethnic differences was much greater for ischemic pain tolerance than for clinical pain measures.
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Low Unstimulated Salivary Flow and Subjective Oral Dryness: Association with Medication, Anxiety, Depression, and Stress
Maud Bergdahl,Jan Bergdahl +1 more
TL;DR: Age and medication seemed to play a more important role in individuals with hyposalivation, and female gender and psychological factors inindividuals with subjective oral dryness.
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Effectiveness of exposure and ritual prevention for obsessive-compulsive disorder: Randomized compared with nonrandomized samples.
Martin E. Franklin,Jonathan S. Abramowitz,Michael J. Kozak,Michael J. Kozak,Jill T. Levitt,Edna B. Foa +5 more
TL;DR: Clinical patients achieved substantial and clinically meaningful reductions in their OCD and depressive symptoms following EX/RP, which were comparable with those reported in the RCTs.
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Hope and the Meaningful Life: Theoretical and Empirical Associations Between Goal–Directed Thinking and Life Meaning
David B. Feldman,C. R. Snyder +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, important theories of life meaning are discussed, as are the hypothesized effects of meaning on anxiety and depression A commonality among these theories is highlighted in the context of a goal-directed model of hope.
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The Hopelessness Depression Symptom Questionnaire
TL;DR: The Hopelessness Depression Symptom Questionnaire (HDSQ) as mentioned in this paper is a self-report measure of eight symptoms posited by L. Alloy (1989) to comprise a specific subtype of depression.
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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.