Exposure Through Written Emotional Disclosure: Two Case Examples

Cognitive and Behavioral Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 227-234

  Sloan, Denise M ^a   Marx, Brian P ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WRITING; WRITTEN LANGUAGE;

EID: 33745750602     PISSN: 10777229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpra.2005.08.001     Document Type: Article

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