Meta cognitive beliefs in posttraumatic stress disorder following forced displacement at the end of the Second World War in older adults and their offspring

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 452-462

  Jelinek, Lena ^a   Wittekind, Charlotte E ^a   Kellner, Michael ^a   Moritz, Steffen ^a   Muhtz, Christoph ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b Hamburg Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Rheumatology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geriatric psychiatry; Metacognition; Metacognitions Questionnaire; Posttraumatic Cognitions Inventory; Refugee; Secondary trauma; World War II

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; METACOGNITIONS QUESTIONNAIRE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; POSTTRAUMATIC COGNITIONS INVENTORY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PSYCHOMETRY; REFUGEE; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DSM DISORDERS; WAR;

ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; COGNITION; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFUGEES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 84888291099     PISSN: 13546805     EISSN: 14640619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546805.2012.754749     Document Type: Article

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