In contemporary clinical practice and research, many different instruments are used to measure depression severity. Santor et al. [1] identified no fewer than 280 scales developed in the last century, many of which are still in use. The responsiveness of these various depression scales to treatmentdand the comparison of responsiveness among scalesdhas become an important research topic. Respons...

We compare two methods of assessing explanatory style--the content analysis of verbatim explanations (CAVE) and the Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ). The CAVE technique is a method that allows the researcher to analyze any naturally occurring verbatim materials for explanatory style. This technique permits the measurement of various populations that are unwilling or unable to take the AS...

BACKGROUND Although numerous efficacy studies in recent years have found internet-based interventions for depression to be effective, there has been scant consideration of therapeutic process factors in the online setting. In face-to face therapy, the quality of the working alliance explains variance in treatment outcome. However, little is yet known about the impact of the working alliance in ...

BACKGROUND We examined the relationship between subjective well-being and depressive symptoms in patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia before and after treatment with clozapine to contribute to the growing body of research regarding the determinants of patients' perspective of their own well-being in schizophrenia. METHODS Forty patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia were c...

Joining the debate on the structure of depression, S. R. H. Beach and N. Amir (2003) analyzed college students’ responses to 6 Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) items with predominantly somatic content and concluded that they identified a small latent taxon corresponding to involuntary defeat syndrome. An exact replication of these analyses yielded virtually identical taxometric results, but para...

Shame has been shown to be related both to symptoms of depression and eating pathology. However, the independence of this relationship has not yet been established. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether the relationship between shame and eating disorder symptoms was independent of the relationships of these variables with depression. Seventy non-clinical female participants ...

In this paper, a first version of the BDIE architecture is presented. This architecture is an attempt to model affective phenomena and adds a new emotional component to a BDI agent. The new component affects to the others trying to take advantage of the use of emotions for the development of artificial agents. The architecture has been implemented in an objectoriented framework that allows to e...

Emergent Team Roles in Organizational Meetings: Identifying Communication Patterns via Cluster Analysis Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock, Stephenson J. Beck & Simone Kauffeld To cite this article: Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock, Stephenson J. Beck & Simone Kauffeld (2016) Emergent Team Roles in Organizational Meetings: Identifying Communication Patterns via Cluster Analysis, Communication Studies, 67:1, 37-5...

Alpha-synuclein (alpha-Syn) is a neuronal protein involved in the regulation of brain serotonin and dopamine levels. We analyzed the peripheral expression of alpha-Syn mRNA and Beck Depression Inventory scores in female patients suffering from anorexia nervosa (n = 18) or bulimia nervosa (n = 24). We found a significant positive association between alpha-Syn mRNA expression and the total scores...