Characteristics of severe life events, attachment style, and depression - Using a new online approach.

CONCLUSIONS: Identifying salient features of severe life events improves associations with depression and insecure attachment style. Utilizing a new online approach can aid research and clinical approaches for depression at low cost. PRACTITIONER POINTS: Salient features of severe life events (e.g., loss, humiliation) give insight into the potential impact on attachment vulnerability and depression. Clinicians and researchers can use online methods to economically gain detailed life event information needed for clinical formulation and valid data on stressors. The self-reported scale for recent depression is only a proxy measure of clinical disorder, but the clinical group selection is a more robust criterion for depression history. PMID: 30980546 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The British Journal of Clinical Psychology - April 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bifulco A, Kagan L, Spence R, Nunn S, Bailey-Rodriguez D, Hosang G, Taylor M, Fisher HL Tags: Br J Clin Psychol Source Type: research