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Item Discrimination among depressive disorders using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2(Texas Tech University, 1993-05) Schipper, John I.Item Psychologists' views on rational suicide assessment of the terminally-ill(Texas Tech University, 2004-12) Johnson, Allegro LeaSince passage of Oregon's Death with Dignity Act (Oregon Right to Die, 1994), recommendations have been needed for the role of psychologists in legal assisted-suicide. Guidelines have been outlined (Werth & Gordon, 1998; Werth, Benjamin, & Farrenkopf, 2000), but psychologists' awareness of them has been uncertain. Of 75 licensed Oregon psychologists surveyed, generally less than half indicated recommended instruments for depression, hopelessness, and competency assessment. Participants appeared almost equally divided in their emphasis of psychological over physical criteria in the assessment of Major Depressive Disorder. Importance ratings of laws significantly predicted participants' willingness to participate in assisted-suicide assessment. Finally, the majority of participants believed that physicians find their recommendations less than or equal to "Very" importantItem Subtypes of depression: socially dependent and autonomous(Texas Tech University, 1992-08) O'Donnell, Sean DAaron Beck's criteria for subtypes of depression was used in the present study to separate psychiatric patients into two groups: socially dependent and autonomous. Male and female state mental hospital inpatients (N = 86) meeting DSM-III-R criteria for depression alone or depression with concurrent personality disorder were compared to each other in a retrospective design. As hypothesized, anxious depression was correlated positively with social dependency and negatively with autonomy. No other findings were statistically significant. Additionally, patients with dual diagnoses of depression concurrent with personality disorder (N = 42) were separated into socially dependent and autonomous groups and compared across study hypothesis variables. No findings were statistically significant. Depressed patients may be differentiated by Beck's criteria for depressive episode symptomatology and anxious depression.