Psychological treatments for chronic post-traumatic stress disorder: Systematic review and meta-analysis

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 190, Issue FEB., 2007, Pages 97-104

  Bisson, Jonathan I ^a,f   Ehlers, Anke ^b   Matthews, Rosa ^c   Pilling, Stephen ^c   Richards, David ^d   Turner, Stuart ^e  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA SYNTHESIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GROUP THERAPY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; META ANALYSIS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRESS MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VETERAN;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 33846954439     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.106.021402     Document Type: Review

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