Attachment style in the prediction of recovery following group treatment of combat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 198, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 881-884

  Forbes, David ^a   Parslow, Ruth ^a   Fletcher, Susan ^a   McHugh, Tony ^a,b   Creamer, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Victorian Psychological Trauma Recovery Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

attachment; group treatment; PTSD; veterans

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PATH ANALYSIS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOEDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELATIONSHIP STYLES QUESTIONNAIRE; VETERAN;

HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VETERANS;

EID: 78650817947     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181fe73fa     Document Type: Article

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