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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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Post-stroke depression.

TL;DR: Post-stroke depression is potentially treatable, although no conclusive benefits of antidepressant agents and nonpharmacological interventions have been observed and the efficacy of preventive strategies in PSD remains essentially undetermined.
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Depression is an important contributor to low medication adherence in hemodialyzed patients and transplant recipients

TL;DR: It is suggested that a depressive affect is an important contributor to low medication adherence in patients with ESRD on hemodialysis or kidney transplant recipients and the only statistically significant predictor of medication adherence beyond gender and mode of treatment.
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Alliance predicts patients' outcome beyond in-treatment change in symptoms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relations among therapeutic alliance, outcome, and early-in-treatment symptomatic improvement in a group of 86 patients with generalized anxiety disorders, chronic depression, or avoidant or obsessive-compulsive personality disorder who received supportive-expressive dynamic psychotherapy.
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Integrating cognitive and motivational factors in depression: Initial tests of a goal-orientation approach.

TL;DR: The model proposes that people differ in their goal orientation, with some people being more validation seeking and others being more growth seeking, and that compared with GS persons, VS persons will show greater anxiety in anticipation of a stressful event and greater self-esteem loss, task disengagement, and depression after a negative event.
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The discriminant validity of burnout and depression: A confirmatory factor analytic study

TL;DR: In this article, a confirmatory factor analysis provided support for differentiating burnout and depression, and the analysis confirmed the three-factor structure of the Maslach Burnout Inventory and s multiple factor structure for depression measures.
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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.