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..In addition, the mean scores for patients with major depression and dysthymia on the Self Scale were significantly lower than the mean scores for the Other Scale...

..For the extremist Islamists the ultimate goal has been overthrow of the moderate Islamic governments; for the domestic terrorists, destabilization of the national government and reinstitution of the traditional values...

..The study results support the cognitive theory of personality disorders. Suggestions are made regarding the clinical utility of the PBQ with personality-disordered patients and future research on the PBQ...

..As hypothesized, the Beck Depression Inventory-II was more positively correlated with scores on the Depression subscale (r = .89) than it was with scores on the Anxiety subscale of the SCL-90-R (r = .71)...

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..49, p<.001) and Anger (r=.41, p<.001) Inventories. These latter correlations were higher than those for scores on the Oppositional scale with the scores on the three other Beck scales...

..This study examined the differential rate of change in problem-solving appraisal following suicide attempts among individuals who participated in a randomized controlled trial for the prevention of suicide...

..The results were discussed as supporting the use of the BDI-II with clinically depressed geriatric inpatients...

..A multivariate survival analysis indicated that several modifiable variables were significant and unique risk factors for suicide, including suicide ideation, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, and unemployment status...

..This was a multicenter investigation examining the efficacy of 4 psychosocial treatments for cocaine-dependent patients...

..According to the BSI, 36 (28%) patients were classified as current suicide ideators. The results were discussed as supporting the use of the BSI with inpatients who are diagnosed with schizophrenia, schizoaffective, or bipolar disorders...

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..We investigated the hypothesis that memory and attention deficits interact with beliefs about the gravity of being rejected (i.e. evaluation sensitivity) to produce the symptoms of communication disorder...

..The purpose of this investigation was to determine if there have been changes in the clinical profile of suicide attempters in recent decades...

..Training in SE and CT did not have a negative impact on the therapeutic alliance, although alliance scores for trainees in drug counseling initially decreased but then rebounded to initial levels...

..The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether self-reported somatic symptoms of depression, as measured by the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), are more frequent in women than in men with major depressive disorder...

..7, SD=7.8, p<.001). The Beck Depression Inventory-II appears to be useful for measuring self-reported depression in patients with bipolar I disorders...

..These preliminary data suggest that attentional fixation is an important dimension of cognition relevant to panic disorder...

..CONCLUSION: The current study has provided data on the factor structure of the SSI in an older population, demonstrating that suicidal ideation in this group is similar to younger age groups...

..Findings from the CT trial support the role of cognitive change during therapy and its continuation after termination...

..CONCLUSIONS: Suicide attempters' reaction to surviving is an important clinical variable that is easily assessed in evaluations that occur following a suicide attempt...

..The cost-effectiveness of conducting follow-up studies to identify suicidal risk factors in psychiatric outpatients beyond three years was questioned...

..These findings highlight the seriousness of BPD and the risk that individuals diagnosed with this disorder will attempt suicide...

..The comprehensive conceptualization creates the context for targeted psychological treatments...

..The CCL-M-R was discussed as a reliable and valid instrument for measuring the severity of maladaptive cognitions associated with mania in psychiatric patients...

..The results indicate that the BDI-II is a reliable and valid measure of depressive symptoms for African American suicide attempters...

..I suggest that comprehensive study of the psychological as well as biological correlates of depression can provide a new understanding of this debilitating disorder...

..Given its multidimensional structure, the scale can be used as a measure of belief profiles associated with BPD and as an aid to conceptualizing beliefs underlying a range of psychopathology associated with patients with BPD...

..The findings support clinical approaches targeting depressive cognitions regardless of the presence of manic symptoms...

..The authors examined the patterns of improvement in cognitive and vegetative symptoms of major depression in individuals treated with cognitive therapy (CT) or pharmacotherapy (PT)...

..However, little is understood about the value of CBT for people who are not prescribed antipsychotic medication...

..These findings suggest that depressed and anxious patients differ in their cognitive expectancies about future life events in terms of their own anticipated emotional reactions...

..The trade-off between these assumptions is evaluated in the context of two suicide/depression intervention studies...

..This study attempted to assess whether an index of the difference between the wish to die and the wish to live constitutes a risk factor for suicide...

..While limitations of the meta-analytic approach need to be considered in interpreting the results of this review, our findings are consistent with other review methodologies that also provide support for the efficacy CBT...

..Implications for further research with this difficult-to-treat patient population are discussed...

..The results provided tentative support for the validity of the BCIS. Suggestions were made for further investigation of the cognitive processes involved in identifying and correcting erroneous beliefs and misinterpretations...

..The current study aimed to test the hypothesis that multiple suicide attempters would exhibit a more severe clinical profile than single suicide attempters...

..The results are discussed as indicating that there is a high prevalence of self-reported anxiety in outpatients who are diagnosed with psychotic disorders...

..These findings bear on the trajectory of suicidal behavior over time, as well as inform the clinical assessment of suicidal patients...

..In addition, a measure of beliefs about addiction developed to test mediation of outcome of cognitive therapy was found to correlate moderately with drug use outcomes in both cognitive therapy and individual drug counseling...

..A BPD beliefs scale constructed from these items showed good internal consistency and diagnostic validity among the 288 study patients. The scale may be used to assist in diagnosis and cognitive therapy of BPD...

..78 and .76. The results (a) indicate that the BDI-II and the RADS have similar psychometric characteristics and (b) support the convergent validity of the BDI-II for assessing self-reported depression in adolescent inpatients...

..Cognitive therapy has been shown to be an important adjunct to standard treatments of schizophrenia...

..1%) completed the entire program. Users indicated a high rate of acceptance of this form of computer-assisted therapy, and mean scores on a measure of cognitive therapy knowledge were significantly improved...

..An enhanced response to CBT would be expected when given with low dose cognitively enhancing atypical antipsychotic medication...

..This instrument is a promising tool for measuring the role of cognitive change in a broad range of patients experiencing psychosis...

..Suggestions for future research and applications are presented...

..These results provide preliminary evidence that the PBI has adequate psychometric characteristics, is useful to assess change in dysfunctional beliefs during treatment, and has the potential to advance cognitive theories of panic...

..Suicide attempts constitute a major risk factor for completed suicide, yet few interventions specifically designed to prevent suicide attempts have been evaluated...

..To outline the cognitive understanding of symptoms of schizophrenia, such as delusions, hallucinations, and emotional withdrawal, and to review the cognitive therapy approach to ameliorating these symptoms...

..Results of this study are discussed as they pertain to the theory and treatment of suicide attempters...

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..We sought to compare the maladaptive beliefs and cognitions of 23 bipolar manic or hypomanic patients, 28 patients with unipolar major depression, and 24 normal adults...

..While the present study demonstrated positive effects from treatment, results are limited by the small sample size...

..Specifically, higher levels of suicide intent were associated with more lethal attempts but only for those individuals who had more accurate expectations about the likelihood of dying from their attempts...

..Ratings > 1 for the BDI-II Concentration Difficulty item were discussed as being useful for ruling out possible symptoms of ADHD...

..This work points to potentially important areas to target in treatment development for these personality disorders...

..It also showed good internal consistency across studies and high stability in Studies 2 and 3, higher than the BAI's in Study 2. Factor analyses across studies all supported 2 factors, 1 Somatic and 1 Subjective...

..During the follow-up period, patients with psychotic disorders subsequently attempted suicide at a significantly higher rate than patients without psychotic disorders. The clinical relevance of these findings is discussed...

..The questionnaire had strong convergent validity with other OCD symptom measures but more modest discriminant validity...