Stability of Personality Traits in Patients Who Received Intensive Treatment for a Severe Eating Disorder

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 129-138

  Bloks, Hans ^a,d   Hoek, Hans Wijbrand ^b   Callewaert, Ineke ^c   Van Furth, Eric ^a  

^a Robert Fleury Stichting   (Netherlands)

^b PARNASSIA PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c Eating Disorders Program   (Netherlands)

^d Robert Fleury Stichting   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Eating disorders; Follow up; Personality traits; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BULIMIA; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; COOPERATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; HARM REDUCTION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERSONALITY; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REMISSION INDUCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 1342304070     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000110284.12816.fe     Document Type: Article

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