Should we use personal construct therapy? A paradigm for outcomes evaluation

Psychotherapy

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 366-380

  Viney, Linda L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0032415927     PISSN: 00333204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0087785     Document Type: Review

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