A Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Affect Regulation and Social Problem-Solving Psychotherapies for Mothers With Victimization-Related PTSD

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 560-578

  Ford, Julian D ^a   Steinberg, Karen L ^a   Zhang, Wanli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect regulation; Psychotherapy; PTSD; Women

Indexed keywords

ABUSE; ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; COUNSELING; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MINORITY GROUP; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PARENTAL STRESS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRESENT CENTERED THERAPY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK REDUCTION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; STUDY DESIGN; THERAPY EFFECT; TRAUMA AFFECT REGULATION: GUIDE TRAUMA MEMORY PROCESSING; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CRIME VICTIMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80055032265     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: 18781888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2010.12.005     Document Type: Article

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