The Therapeutic Factors Inventory: Development of a Scale

Group

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 303-317

  Lese, Karen P ^b   MacNair Semands, Rebecca R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Group therapy; Instrument development; Psychological assessment; Psychometrics; Therapeutic factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041726470     PISSN: 03624021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026616626780     Document Type: Article

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