Intrusive cognitions, coping strategies and emotional responses in depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and a non-clinical population

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 135-147

  Reynolds, Martina ^a   Brewin, Chris R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; THINKING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; THINKING;

EID: 0032004279     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(98)00013-8     Document Type: Article

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