Client experience of gender in therapeutic relationships: An interpretive ethnography

Family Process

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 443-458

  Gehart, Diane R ^a   Lyle, Randall R ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0035747862     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2001.4040100443.x     Document Type: Article

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