Private events in behavior analysis: Conceptual basis and clinical relevance

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 157-179

  Anderson, Cynthia M ^a   Hawkins, Robert P ^a   Scorn, Joseph R ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030789406     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7894(97)80040-8     Document Type: Review

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