Efficacy of a two-session program of cognitive restructuring and imagery modification to reduce the feeling of being contaminated in adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse: A pilot study

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 325-329

  Steil, Regina ^a   Jung, Kerstin ^a   Stangier, Ulrich ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Childhood sexual abuse; Cognitive therapy; Disgust; Imagery modification; Posttraumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE RESTRUCTURING AND IMAGERY MODIFICATION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EATING DISORDER; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEELING OF BEING CONTAMINATED; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; POSTTRAUMATIC DIAGNOSTIC SCALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL PHOBIA;

ADULT; ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE; CHILD; COGNITIVE THERAPY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOTHERAPY, BRIEF; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79952051936     PISSN: 00057916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2011.01.008     Document Type: Article

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