Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Cognitive, Behavioural and Emotional Processing Vulnerability Factors

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 156-169

  Brooks, Samantha K ^a   Chalder, Trudie ^a   Rimes, Katharine A ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

beliefs; Chronic fatigue; goals; perfectionism; predictors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EMOTION; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERFECTIONISM; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; EMOTIONS; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERFECTIONISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SELF REPORT; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85009725361     PISSN: 13524658     EISSN: 14691833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1352465816000631     Document Type: Article

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