Psychological Inflexibility in Childhood and Adolescence: Development and Evaluation of the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 93-102

  Greco, Laurie A ^a   Lambert, Warren ^b   Baer, Ruth A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT); children and adolescents; cognitive fusion; experiential avoidance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILDHOOD; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 45449091770     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1040-3590.20.2.93     Document Type: Article

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