Avoidant personality disorder as a predictor for treatment outcome among generalized social phobics

Journal of Personality Disorders

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 174-184

  Feske, Ulrike ^a   Perry, Kevin J ^a   Chambless, Dianne L ^b   Renneberg, Babette ^c   Goldstein, Alan J ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PHOBIA; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030017053     PISSN: 0885579X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/pedi.1996.10.2.174     Document Type: Article

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