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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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Waiting for supershrink: an empirical analysis of therapist effects

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined data collected on 1841 clients seen by 91 therapists over a 2.5-year period in a University Counseling Center and found that therapists whose clients showed the fastest rate of improvement had an average rate of change 10 times greater than the mean for the sample.
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Relation Between Catastrophizing and Depression in Chronic Pain Patients

TL;DR: The discussion addresses the interpretive difficulties that arise from hypothesizing mediating relations between variables that are conceptually and operationally confounded.
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Children involved in bullying at elementary school age: their psychiatric symptoms and deviance in adolescence: An epidemiological sample

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated psychiatric symptoms and deviance among children involved in bullying at the age of 8 or 12 years and found that involvement in bullying increased the probability of teacher-defined deviance at age 15 years.
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Cognitive aspects of compulsive hoarding

TL;DR: In this paper, the Saving Cognitions Inventory (SCI) was used to examine beliefs about possessions using an instrument developed for this purpose, and participants were individuals with compulsive hoarding, obsessive compulsive disorder without hoarding and community controls.
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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.