Dissolving the tenacity of obsessional doubt: Implications for treatment outcome

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 855-861

  Aardema, Frederick ^a,b   O'Connor, Kieron ^a  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE FERNAND SEGUIN   (Canada)

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Doubt; Imagination; Inference based therapy; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Possibility; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; HUMAN; INFERENCE BASED TREATMENT; OBSESSION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; SELF CONTROL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF REPORT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855173524     PISSN: 00057916     EISSN: 18737943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2011.12.006     Document Type: Article

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