Acceptance- and mindfulness-based interventions for the treatment of chronic pain: a meta-analytic review

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 5-31

  Veehof, M M ^a,b   Trompetter, H R ^a   Bohlmeijer, E T ^a   Schreurs, K M G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b MEDISCH SPECTRUM TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c ROESSINGH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

acceptance; acceptance and commitment therapy; chronic pain; meta analysis; Mindfulness

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY; CHRONIC PAIN; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MINDFULNESS; PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY; CHRONIC PAIN; HUMANS; MINDFULNESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84959084553     PISSN: 16506073     EISSN: 16512316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16506073.2015.1098724     Document Type: Review

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