Group psychotherapy for female adult survivors of interpersonal psychological trauma: a preliminary study in Scotland

Journal of Mental Health

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 512-519

  Karatzias, Thanos ^a,b   Ferguson, Sandra ^b   Gullone, Angela ^a   Cosgrove, Katie ^c  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS LOTHIAN   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

child sexual abuse; group psychotherapy; interpersonal trauma; mental health

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CLINICAL OUTCOMES IN ROUTINE EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISSOCIATIVE EXPERIENCES SCALE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISSOCIATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PARANOIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOTRAUMA; PTSD CHECKLIST; ROSENBERG SELF-ESTEEM SCALE; SCOTLAND; SELF ESTEEM; SOMATIZATION; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90; BATTERED WOMAN; CHILD ABUSE SURVIVOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN RELATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL ABUSE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA; PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE; BATTERED WOMEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL ABUSE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; SCOTLAND; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84958529027     PISSN: 09638237     EISSN: 13600567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09638237.2016.1139062     Document Type: Article

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