Practitioner perfectionism: Relationship to ambiguity tolerance and work satisfaction

Journal of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1543-1550

  Wittenberg, Kevin J ^a,b,c   Norcross, John C ^a  

^a THE CHICAGO SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Perfectionism; Psychotherapy; Work satisfaction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSESSION; PERFECTIONISM; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SELF EVALUATION;

EID: 0035203517     PISSN: 00219762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jclp.1116     Document Type: Article

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