Understanding anorexia nervosa through analysis of thematic content of letters in an adolescent sample

European Eating Disorders Review

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 301-307

  Freedman, Glen ^a,b   Leichner, Pierre ^a   Manley, Ronald ^a   Sandhu, Preena S ^b   Wang, Tina C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Anorexia nervosa; Motivation; Thematic content; Therapeutic alliance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE TO MENTAL ILLNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COST OF ILLNESS; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FRUSTRATION; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; KAPPA STATISTICS; MOTIVATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REINFORCEMENT; THEMATIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 33750347485     PISSN: 10724133     EISSN: 10990968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/erv.691     Document Type: Article

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