Rumination in PTSD as well as in traumatized and non-traumatized depressed patients: A cross-sectional clinical study

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 381-397

  Birrer, Eva ^a   Michael, Tanja ^b  

^a Klinik fuer Schlafmedizin   (Switzerland)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

depression with and without trauma; intrusive images; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; rumination; triggers

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTENTION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960212337     PISSN: 13524658     EISSN: 14691833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1352465811000087     Document Type: Article

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