Adapting to the challenge of psychosis: Personal resilience and the use of sealing-over (avoidant) coping strategies

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 185, Issue NOV., 2004, Pages 410-415

  Tait, Lynda ^a   Birchwood, Max ^a,b   Trower, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Early Intervention Service   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; LIFE EVENT; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOSIS; RATING SCALE; SEALING OVER; SELF EVALUATION; SUPPORT GROUP;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 8344255704     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.185.5.410     Document Type: Article

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