Body-oriented therapy in recovery from child sexual abuse: An efficacy study

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 46-57

  Price, Cynthia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BODY THERAPY; BRIEF SYMPTOM INVENTORY; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME RELATED POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER SCALE; DISSOCIATIVE EXPERIENCES SCALE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MASSAGE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SCALE OF BODY CONNECTION; SCALE OF BODY INVESTMENT; WELLBEING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY IMAGE; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASSAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 24744461707     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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