Chapter 4 Children's Depression Inventory

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(4) Children’s Depression Inventory – CDI2 (Kovacs, 2011). The CDI2 is the latest update to the original CDI. It assesses depression in children aged 7 to 17. Internal consistency of the CDI was .86 in the normative sample. Alpha reliability statistics reported by other researchers are typically equal to or greater than .80, with no values reported lower than .70 (Kovacs,

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