Unsqueezing the soul: Expanding choices by reframing and redirecting boredom

Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 327-336

  Rule, Warren R ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; BOREDOM; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LEISURE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SELF ESTEEM; SELF EVALUATION;

EID: 0031781131     PISSN: 00220116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022938109185     Document Type: Review

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