Treatment acceptability and 'faking good': Are staff telling us what they think we want to hear!

Behavioral Interventions

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 181-191

  Kemp, Frederick D ^a   Miltenberger, Raymond G ^b   Lumley, Vicki A ^b  

^a Western Carolina Center   (United States)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERSONALITY TEST;

EID: 0029912690     PISSN: 10720847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-078X(199610)11:4<181::AID-BRT162>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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