The role of trauma and dissociation in cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy outcome and maintenance for panic disorder with agoraphobia

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1011-1050

  Michelson, Larry ^a   June, Kimberly ^a   Vives, Allan ^a   Testa, Sandra ^a   Marchione, Norman ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PANIC; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RECURRENCE RISK; RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PANIC DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX OFFENSES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031680574     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(98)00073-4     Document Type: Article

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