Interpersonal distress as a mediator between avoidance goals and goal satisfaction in psychotherapy inpatients

Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 172-182

  Holtforth, Martin Grosse ^a,b   Bents, Hinrich ^c   Mauler, Birgit ^d   Grawe, Klaus ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d Christoph Dornier Klinik   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HELPLESSNESS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; MOTIVATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 33745291010     PISSN: 10633995     EISSN: 10990879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpp.486     Document Type: Article

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