Child Anxiety and the Processing of Ambiguity

Cognitive Therapy and Research

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 669-677

  Dodd, Helen F ^a,b   Stuijfzand, Suzannah ^a   Morris, Talia ^b   Hudson, Jennifer L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Anxiety; Children; Cognitive bias; Interpretation; Reappraisal

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTERPRETATION GENERATION QUESTIONNAIRE CHILD; LIKERT SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHOBIA; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL PHOBIA;

EID: 84941415617     PISSN: 01475916     EISSN: 15732819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10608-015-9689-1     Document Type: Article

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