Prolonged exposure counterconditioning as a treatment for chronic posttraumatic stress disorder

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 479-499

  Paunović, Nenad ^a,b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b DANDERYD HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Associative functional model; Exposure tolerance; Numbing symptoms; Pleasurable imaginal reliving; Prolonged exposure counterconditioning; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONDITIONING; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RAPE;

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DESENSITIZATION, PSYCHOLOGIC; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MIDDLE AGED; RAPE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0042664079     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-6185(02)00233-5     Document Type: Article

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