Emotion Regulation Difficulties in Trauma Survivors: The Role of Trauma Type and PTSD Symptom Severity

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 587-598

  Ehring, Thomas ^a   Quack, Dorothea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOM;

EID: 78049233663     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2010.04.004     Document Type: Article

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