Religious beliefs and political ideologies as predictors of psychotherapeutic orientations of clinical and counseling psychologists

Psychotherapy

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 245-260

  Bilgrave, Dyer P ^a   Deluty, Robert H ^b  

^a STEVENSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITION; COUNSELING; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLITICS; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; THINKING;

EID: 0036765156     PISSN: 00333204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-3204.39.3.245     Document Type: Article

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