Worry and Rumination: Styles of Persistent Negative Thinking in Anxiety and Depression

Worry and its Psychological Disorders: Theory, Assessment and Treatment

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 21-40

  Papageorgiou, Costas ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chronic worrying; Depressive disorder; Negative thinking; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Panic disorder worry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889498833     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470713143.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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