Psychological Treatment of Rumination

Depressive Rumination: Nature, Theory and Treatment

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 217-239

  Purdon, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Generalized anxiety disorder; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Post traumatic stress disorder; Psychological treatment; Rumination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948771571     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470713853.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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