Honoring and privileging personal experience and knowledge: Ideas for a narrative therapy approach to the training and supervision of new therapists

Contemporary Family Therapy

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 199-220

  Carlson, Thomas D ^b   Erickson, Martin J ^a  

^a Palmer Building   (United States)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Narrative therapy; Self of the therapist; Supervision; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035636484     PISSN: 08922764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011150303280     Document Type: Article

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