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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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Treatment of parental stress to enhance therapeutic change among children referred for aggressive and antisocial behavior.

TL;DR: Children improved with treatment; the PPS intervention enhanced therapeutic change for children and parents and reduced the barriers that parents experienced during treatment.
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Factor structure of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) in a sample from Mexico.

TL;DR: Internal consistency was adequate and confirmatory factor analysis corroborated the factor structure of the Spanish version of the Perceived Stress Scale and the goodness-of-fit measures also revealed an adequate fit.
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Contemplative/emotion training reduces negative emotional behavior and promotes prosocial responses.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that increased awareness of mental processes can influence emotional behavior, and they support the benefit of integrating contemplative theories/practices with psychological models and methods of emotion regulation.
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Mother-child relationships of children with ADHD: the role of maternal depressive symptoms and depression-related distortions.

TL;DR: Examination of the effects of maternal depressive symptoms on cross-informant discrepancies in reports of child behavior problems and several measures of parent–child relationship found mothers' levels of depressive symptoms predicted negative biases in their reports of their child's ADHD symptoms, general behavior problems, and their own negative parenting style.

Adaptación española del Inventario para la Depresión de Beck-II (BDI-II): 2. Propiedades psicométricas en población general The spanish adaptation of Beck's Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II): 2. Psychometric properties in the general population

TL;DR: The first study that provides normative data, reliability and factor validity for the Spanish adaptation of Beck's Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) with a sample of 470 Spanish community adults was presented in this paper.
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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.