Understanding cognitive behaviour therapy: A retrieval competition account

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 765-784

  Brewin, Chris R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CBT; Intrusion; Memory; Retrieval; Rumination; Treatment

Indexed keywords

AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BULIMIA; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEAR; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; INFORMATION; INTUITION; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOOD; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHOBIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RUMINATION; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STRESS; SYMPTOM; THINKING;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 33646096971     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2006.02.005     Document Type: Article

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