One-session group therapy of spider phobia: Direct versus indirect treatments

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 721-732

  Öst, Lars Göran ^a   Ferebee, Ingela ^b   Furmark, Tomas ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OBSERVATION; PHOBIA; SELF REPORT; SPIDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOTHERAPY, BRIEF; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; SPIDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0342618783     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(97)00028-4     Document Type: Article

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