Nighttime fears of children and adolescents: Frequency, content, severity, harm expectations, disclosure, and coping behaviours

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2464-2472

  Gordon, Jocelynne ^a   King, Neville ^a   Gullone, Eleonora ^a   Muris, Peter ^b   Ollendick, Thomas H ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Children; Coping; Disclosure; Nighttime fears

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COPING BEHAVIOR; DREAM; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIGHT; NIGHTMARE; RELIGION; SAFETY; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF CONTROL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DISCLOSURE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NIGHT TERRORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 34548496249     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2007.03.013     Document Type: Article

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