Maria Kovacs is an American psychologist and academic. She is a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the

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. She is the developer of the Children's Depression Inventory.

Biography

Kovacs earned an undergraduate degree in psychology from

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, a master's degree from

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, and a Ph.D. from the

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. In 1976, with

Aaron T. Beck Aaron Temkin Beck (July 18, 1921November 1, 2021) was an American psychiatrist who was a professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.

and Arlene Weissman, Kovacs co-authored a study establishing a correlation between suicide and hopelessness. The next year, she published the Children's Depression Inventory, which was largely based on the

Beck Depression Inventory The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI, BDI-1A, BDI-II), created by Aaron T. Beck, is a 21-question multiple-choice self-report inventory, one of the most widely used psychometric tests for measuring the severity of depression. Its development mar ...

that had already been used for adults. In 1979, Beck, Kovacs and Weissman published the Scale for Suicide Ideation (SSI), which measures the frequency and severity of suicidal thoughts. Kovacs is a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the

. She is a fellow of the

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. She received the 2013 Paul Hoch Award from the

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in recognition of her research into psychopathology. In 2003, Kovacs was included in the

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database.

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