Intervening on persistent posttraumatic stress disorder: Rumination-focused cognitive and behavioral therapy in a population of young survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda

Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 107-113

  Sezibera, Vincent ^a,b   Van Broeck, Nady ^b   Philippot, Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA   (Rwanda)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Children; Genocide; Intervention; PTSD; Rwanda

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENOCIDE; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOEDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RWANDA; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOMATIZATION; SURVIVOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIOLENCE;

EID: 66349123914     PISSN: 08898391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/0889-8391.23.2.107     Document Type: Article

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