Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 45, Issue 3 , Pages 192-198 , May 2004

Life events and personality factors in children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder and other anxiety disorders

  • Doron Gothelf

      Affiliations

    • Richard E. Feinberg Department of Psychiatry, Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqwa, Israel
    • Sacker Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
    • ,
  • Orit Aharonovsky

      Affiliations

    • Richard E. Feinberg Department of Psychiatry, Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqwa, Israel
    • Sacker Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
    • ,
  • Netta Horesh

      Affiliations

    • Richard E. Feinberg Department of Psychiatry, Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqwa, Israel
    • Sacker Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
    • ,
  • Tal Carty

      Affiliations

    • Richard E. Feinberg Department of Psychiatry, Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqwa, Israel
    • Sacker Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
    • ,
  • Alan Apter

      Affiliations

    • Richard E. Feinberg Department of Psychiatry, Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqwa, Israel
    • Sacker Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint request to Alan Apter, M.D., Director, Feinberg Department of Psychiatry, Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel, 14 Kaplan St, Petah Tiqwa 49202 Israel

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doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2004.02.010

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 45, Issue 3 , Pages 192-198 , May 2004

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