The cognitive behavioural model of medically unexplained symptoms: A theoretical and empirical review

Clinical Psychology Review

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 781-797

  Deary, V ^a   Chalder, T ^b   Sharpe, M ^c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ATTENTION; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; MEDICALLY UNEXPLAINED SYMPTOMS; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ATTENTION; BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROTIC DISORDERS;

EID: 34548631077     PISSN: 02727358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2007.07.002     Document Type: Review

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