Rumination and Memory Functioning in Depression

通过调查和识别潜在症状维持的认知过程，这项研究将推进抑郁症的认知概念化。这些发现将导致通过采取强有力的科学从业者的方法来产生和实证评估抑郁症的心理治疗程序，最终增强：(I)抑郁症心理治疗的有效性和成本效益，以及(Ii)向澳大利亚社区提供精神健康服务。在应用严格的实验方法来回答有关抑郁症维持的理论问题时，这些研究代表了经验性可靠和面向临床的实验研究的交汇点。

By investigating and identifying the cognitive processes underlying symptom maintenance, this research will advance cognitive conceptualisations of depression. The findings will result in the generation and empirical evaluation of psychological treatment procedures for depression by taking a strong science-practitioner approach, ultimately enhancing: (i) the efficacy and cost effectiveness of psychological treatments for depressive disorders, and (ii) the provision of mental health services to the Australian community. In applying rigorous experimental methodologies to answer theoretically driven questions about depression maintenance, these studies represent the interface of empirically sound and clinically-oriented experimental research.