Manualized behavior therapy: Merits and challenges

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 499-509

  Eifert, Georg H ^a   Schulte, Dietmar ^b   Zvolensky, Michael J ^a   Lejuez, C W ^a   Lau, Angela W ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0030732573     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0005-7894(97)80005-6     Document Type: Review

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