Positive psychological wellbeing is required for online self-help acceptance and commitment therapy for chronic pain to be effective

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue MAR, 2016, Pages

  Trompetter, Hester R ^a   Bohlmeijer, Ernst T ^a   Lamers, Sanne M A ^a   Schreurs, Karlein M G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b ROESSINGH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy; Chronic pain; Moderator; Online; Predictor; Psychological wellbeing; Resilience; Web based

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963691853     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00353     Document Type: Article

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