Reducing hopelessness: The interation of enhancing and depressogenic attributional styles for positive and negative life events among youth psychiatric inpatients

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1183-1198

  Voelz, Zachary R ^a   Haeffel, Gerald J ^b   Joiner Jr , Thomas E ^a   Wagner, Karen Dineen ^c  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Attributional style; Depression; Hopefulness; Hopelessness; Life events; Recovery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONVALESCENCE; DEPRESSION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; JUVENILE; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE;

EID: 0041825568     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(03)00030-5     Document Type: Article

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