A randomized controlled trial on cognitive restructuring and imagery modification to reduce the feeling of being contaminated in adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 213-220

  Jung, Kerstin ^a   Steil, Regina ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Childhood sexual abuse; Cognitive therapy; Contamination; Disgust; Imagery; Posttraumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CLINICIAN ADMINISTERED PTSD SCALE; COGNITIVE RESTRUCTURING AND IMAGERY MODIFICATION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EFFECT SIZE; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEELING OF BEING CONTAMINATED; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL PATIENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC DIAGNOSTIC SCALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK REDUCTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF ESTEEM; SURVIVOR; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 84878066175     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: 14230348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000348450     Document Type: Article

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