Cognitive-behavior therapy for disaster-exposed youth with posttraumatic stress: Results from a multiple-baseline examination

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 349-363

  Taylor, Leslie K ^a   Weems, Carl F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HURRICANE; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; NATURAL DISASTER; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOEDUCATION; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; CHILD; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CYCLONIC STORMS; DEPRESSION; DISASTERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEW ORLEANS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RECURRENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 79958086027     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: 18781888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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