Patterns of reassurance seeking and reassurance-related behaviours in OCD and anxiety disorders

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-23

  Kobori, Osamu ^a   Salkovskis, Paul M ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cognitive model; Obsessive compulsive disorder; panic disorder; reassurance seeking; Reassurance Seeking Questionnaire (ReSQ)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STEREOTYPY;

ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPENDENCY (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84870856584     PISSN: 13524658     EISSN: 14691833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1352465812000665     Document Type: Article

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