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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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Perfectionism and learned resourcefulness in depression and self-esteem

TL;DR: This paper examined the extent to which various dimensions of perfectionism are related to levels of personal adjustment and whether individual differences in learned resourcefulness mediate the relation between perfectionism and adjustment.
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Evaluation of the clinical global impression scale among individuals with social anxiety disorder.

TL;DR: The findings support the utility of the CGI as an index of global severity and symptom-specific improvement among individuals with social anxiety disorder.
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Mental state decoding abilities in clinical depression.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that severely depressed individuals are significantly impaired in their ability to decode others' mental states, and strategies based on improving basic theory-of-mind reasoning could be incorporated into current therapeutic interventions for depressed individuals to ameliorate their understanding and interpretation of social information.
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Burnout Contagion Processes Among Teachers1

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined processes by which occupational burnout may transfer from one person to another and found that the prevalence of perceived burnout among participants' colleagues was most strongly related to individual teachers' burnout.
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A randomized controlled trial of cognitive therapy versus intensive behavior therapy in obsessive compulsive disorder.

TL;DR: CT and BT were equally effective on OCD, but at post-test CT had specific effects on depression which were stronger than those of BT.
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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.