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Predictors of Attributional Style Change in Children
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Gibb, Brandon E.; Alloy, Lauren B.; Walshaw, Patricia D.; Comer, Jonathan S.; Shen, Gail H. C.; Villari, Annette G. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2006
A number of studies have supported the hypothesis that negative attributional styles may confer vulnerability to the development of depression. The goal of this study was to explore factors that may contribute to the development of negative attributional styles in children. As hypothesized, elevated levels of depressive symptoms and hopelessness…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Depression (Psychology), Children, Followup Studies
Adaptive Inferential Feedback Partner Training for Depression: A Pilot Study
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Dobkin, Roseanne DeFronzo; Allen, Lesley A.; Alloy, Lauren B.; Menza, Matthew; Gara, Michael A.; Panzarella, Catherine – Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 2007
Adaptive inferential feedback (AIF) partner training is a cognitive technique that teaches the friends and family members of depressed patients to respond to the patients' dysfunctional thoughts in a targeted manner. These dysfunctional attributions, which AIF addresses, are a common residual feature of depression amongst remitted patients, and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Cognitive Restructuring, Feedback (Response), Training Methods
Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression, Rumination, Hopelessness, and Suicidal Ideation: Multiple Pathways to Self-Injurious Thinking
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Smith, Jeannette M.; Alloy, Lauren B.; Abramson, Lyn Y. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2006
In order to advance the detection and prevention of suicide, recent research has focused on predictors of suicidal ideation and behavior such as negative cognitive styles, dysfunctional attitudes, hopelessness, and rumination. In this study the relationships among these risk factors in the context of the Attention Mediated Hopelessness (AMH)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Depression (Psychology), Psychological Patterns, Suicide