Acceptance and commitment therapy - Do we know enough? Cumulative and sequential meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 190, Issue , 2016, Pages 551-565

  Hacker, Thomas ^a   Stone, Paul ^b   Macbeth, Angus ^c  

^a ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

^b NHS FIFE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acceptance and commitment therapy; Anxiety; Depression; Mental health; Sequential meta analysis; Treatment efficacy

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY; ANXIETY DISORDER; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSION ANXIETY STRESS SCALE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT; ANXIETY; SAMPLE SIZE;

ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84946600970     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: 15732517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2015.10.053     Document Type: Review

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