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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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‘Postconcussive’ symptoms in persons with chronic pain

TL;DR: It is illustrated that postconcussive-like symptoms are not unique sequelae of mild head injury, and the presence of chronic pain should be considered when interpreting patients' physical, cognitive, and psychological complaints following closed head injury.

Depression sum-scores don't add up: why analyzing specific depression symptoms is

TL;DR: In this article, a review of studies documenting that specific depressive symptoms like sad mood, insomnia, concentration problems, and suicidal ideation are distinct phenomena that differ from each other in important dimensions such as underlying biology, impact on impairment, and risk factors is presented.
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A meta-analysis on the treatment effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy for primary insomnia

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a meta-analysis focusing on the effect of CBT-I on subjective sleep parameters and self-rating scales, and found that CBT was more effective than the control for subjective sleep variables at the end of treatment and its effectiveness was also recognized on follow-up.
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Neuropsychological impairment in patients with major depressive disorder: the effects of feedback on task performance.

TL;DR: The present results suggest that feedback can have different effects in different contexts, and misleading, negative feedback appears to disrupt the performance of depressed patients, whereas negative but accurate feedback does not.
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An open trial of an acceptance-based behavior therapy for generalized anxiety disorder.

TL;DR: In an open trial of a newly developed acceptance-based behavior therapy for GAD, 16 treated clients demonstrated significant reductions in clinician-rated severity of GAD and reports of anxiety and depressive symptoms and fear and avoidance of their internal experience, as well as significant improvements in reports of quality of life, at both posttreatment and 3-month follow-up.
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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.