Increasing Willingness to Experience Obsessions: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a Treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-13

  Twohig, Michael P ^a   Hayes, Steven C ^a   Masuda, Akihiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COMPULSION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; OBSESSION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; SELF MONITORING; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRES; VOLITION;

EID: 33746504948     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2005.02.001     Document Type: Article

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