Competitive Memory Training (COMET) for OCD: A Self-treatment Approach to Obsessions

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 142-152

  Schneider, Brooke C ^a   Wittekind, Charlotte E ^a   Talhof, Alina ^a,b   Korrelboom, Kees ^c   Moritz, Steffen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Dept Eating Disorders and Obesity   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cognitive therapy; obsessions; obsessive compulsive disorder; self esteem; self help

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84927567270     PISSN: 16506073     EISSN: 16512316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16506073.2014.981758     Document Type: Article

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