Construct validation and clinical assessment

Behaviour Change

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 64-73

  Haig, Brian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; REVIEW; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0032999473     PISSN: 08134839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/bech.16.1.64     Document Type: Review

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