Catastrophizing assessment of worry and threat schemata among worriers

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 211-224

  Provencher, Martin D ^a   Freeston, Mark H ^b   Dugas, Michel J ^c   Ladouceur, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE FERNAND SEGUIN   (Canada)

^c Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Catastrophizing; Cognitive assessment; Information processing; Threat schemata; Worry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; DISASTER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE; THEORY; THREAT;

EID: 0033854602     PISSN: 13524658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1352465800003027     Document Type: Article

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