The impact of personality disorders on treatment outcome of anxiety disorders: Best-evidence synthesis

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 483-504

  Dreessen, Laura ^a   Arntz, Arnoud ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorders; Personality disorders; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; DIAZEPAM; IMIPRAMINE;

ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; OBSESSION; PANIC; PERSONALITY DISORDER; SOCIAL PHOBIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PANIC DISORDER; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032078888     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(98)00026-6     Document Type: Article

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