The role of avoidance coping in the disclosure of trauma

Behaviour Change

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 42-54

  Kenardy, Justin ^a   Tan, Li Jen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RANDOMIZATION; RATING SCALE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 33744470841     PISSN: 08134839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/bech.23.1.42     Document Type: Article

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