Accept, distract, or reframe? An exploratory experimental comparison of strategies for coping with intrusive body image thoughts in anorexia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 225, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 643-650

  Hartmann, Andrea S ^a   Thomas, Jennifer J ^a   Greenberg, Jennifer L ^a   Rosenfield, Elizabeth H ^a   Wilhelm, Sabine ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceptance; Anorexia nervosa; Body dysmorphic disorder; Body image; Cognitive restructuring; Distraction

Indexed keywords

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE RESTRUCTURING STRATEGY; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DELUSIONAL DISORDER; DISTRACTION STRATEGY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MINDFULNESS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTENTION; BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDERS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; MICROCOMPUTER; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ATTENTION; BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDERS; BODY IMAGE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MINDFULNESS; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922956014     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.11.031     Document Type: Article

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