Short-term group schema therapy for mixed personality disorders: a pilot study

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Skewes, Sally A ^a   Samson, Rachel A ^a   Simpson, Susan G ^a   van Vreeswijk, Michiel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b G Kracht Psychomedisch Centrum   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

case series; comorbidity; group; personality disorders; schema therapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84951274124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01592     Document Type: Article

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