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Psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory-II: a comprehensive review

Yuan-Pang Wang, +1 more
- 01 Oct 2013 - 
- Vol. 35, Iss: 4, pp 416-431
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The BDI-II is a relevant psychometric instrument, showing high reliability, capacity to discriminate between depressed and non-depressed subjects, and improved concurrent, content, and structural validity.
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This article is published in Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria.The article was published on 2013-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 906 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Beck Depression Inventory & Test validity.

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TL;DR: 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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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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