Alliance ratings as a part of trainee evaluations within family therapy training

Contemporary Family Therapy

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 441-454

  Davenport, Becky R ^a   Ratliff, Dan ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Marriage and family therapy; Therapeutic alliance; Training evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035649107     PISSN: 08922764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013053028881     Document Type: Article

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