The Application of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Cognitive and Behavioral Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 18-28

  Twohig, Michael P ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COGNITION; COMPULSION; EMOTION; FEAR; FRUSTRATION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MENTAL INSTABILITY; OBSESSION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PAIN THRESHOLD; PANIC; PHILOSOPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PUNISHMENT; REINFORCEMENT; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; THINKING; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

EID: 58149335142     PISSN: 10777229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpra.2008.02.008     Document Type: Article

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