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Aaron T. Beck, M.D. (born 1921), "The Father of Cognitive Behavior
Therapy", is a professor at the Psychopathology Research Unit of
the University of Pennsylvania.His areas of focus are psychotherapy, psychopathology,
studies of suicide, and development of assessment techniques.
He is also well known for the "Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)", a 21 question
multiple choice survey that is one of the most widely used instruments
for measuring depression severity.
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