The Epidemiology of Worry and Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Worry and its Psychological Disorders: Theory, Assessment and Treatment

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-20

  Holaway, Robert M ^a   Rodebaugh, Thomas L ^a   Heimberg, Richard G ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colleagues; Employment; Epidemiological studies; Generalized anxiety disorder; Phenomenology of worry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889396824     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470713143.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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