Staying Present: Incorporating Mindfulness into Therapy for Dissociation

Mindfulness

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 303-314

  Zerubavel, Noga ^a,b   Messman Moore, Terri L ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceptance; Dialectical behavior therapy; Dissociation; Emotion dysregulation; Mindfulness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924810376     PISSN: 18688527     EISSN: 18688535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-013-0261-3     Document Type: Article

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