Treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder in children using cognitive behavioural writing therapy

Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 240-249

  Van Der Oord, Saskia ^a,b   Lucassen, S ^a,b   Van Emmerik, A A P ^a   Emmelkamp, P M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Lucertis   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescent; CBT; Child; PTSD; Treatment; Writing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHILD; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NETHERLANDS; PERSONALITY TEST; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WRITING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMPLOSIVE THERAPY; JUDGMENT; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; NARRATION; NETHERLANDS; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WRITING;

EID: 77954633402     PISSN: 10633995     EISSN: 10990879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpp.670     Document Type: Article

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