What Contributes to Predicting Change in the Treatment of Dissociation: Initial Levels of Dissociation, PTSD, or Overall Distress?

Journal of Trauma and Dissociation

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 328-341

  Brand, Bethany L ^a   Stadnik, Ryan ^a  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dissociation; dissociative disorders; outcome; PTSD; treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; DEPERSONALIZATION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT;

CHECKLIST; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84877252062     PISSN: 15299732     EISSN: 15299740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15299732.2012.736929     Document Type: Article

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