Diagnosis and treatment of PTSD-related compulsive checking behaviors in veterans of the Iraq War: The influence of military context on the expression of PTSD symptoms

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 166, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 762-767

  Tuerk, Peter W ^a   Grubaugh, Anouk L ^b   Hamner, Mark B ^b   Foa, Edna B ^b  

^a RALPH H JOHNSON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITALOPRAM;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPULSION; COMPULSIVE CHECKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SELF EVALUATION; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VETERAN; WAR;

ADULT; CITALOPRAM; COGNITIVE THERAPY; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650003973     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: 15357228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.08091315     Document Type: Article

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