Internet-Based Exposure and Behavioral Activation for Complicated Grief and Rumination: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 729-748

  Eisma, Maarten C ^a   Boelen, Paul A ^a   van den Bout, Jan ^a   Stroebe, Wolfgang ^a,b   Schut, Henk A W ^a   Lancee, Jaap ^c   Stroebe, Margaret S ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behavioral activation; Exposure; Grief therapy; Prolonged grief; Rumination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BEHAVIORAL ACTIVATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPLICATED GRIEF; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EXPOSURE THERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRIEF RUMINATION; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNET; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; FEEDING AND EATING DISORDERS; GRIEF; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; FEEDING AND EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84945470228     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: 18781888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2015.05.007     Document Type: Article

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