Synergistic pathways to delusions: Enduring vulnerabilities, proximal life stressors and maladaptive psychological coping

Early Intervention in Psychiatry

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 122-131

  Goldstone, Eliot ^a   Farhall, John ^a   Ong, Ben ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Delusions; Psychosis; Risk factors; Substance use; Trauma

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS; METHAMPHETAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CHILDHOOD INJURY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DELUSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALADJUSTMENT; MALE; MODEL; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RISK FACTOR; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMPHETAMINE-RELATED DISORDERS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CHILD ABUSE; DELUSIONS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARIJUANA ABUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79955393945     PISSN: 17517885     EISSN: 17517893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7893.2011.00264.x     Document Type: Article

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