Group exposure therapy treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder in female veterans

Military Medicine

Volumn 177, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1486-1491

  Castillo, Diane T ^a   de Baca, Janet C ^a   Qualls, Clifford ^b   Bornovalova, Marina A ^c  

^a NEW MEXICO VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; FEMALE; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES; VETERAN;

FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPLOSIVE THERAPY; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84871429946     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: 1930613X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-12-00186     Document Type: Article

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