The formation of the therapeutic alliance in couple therapy

Family Process

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 425-442

  Knobloch Fedders, Lynne M ^a   Pinsof, William M ^a   Mann, Barton J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; EDUCATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MARITAL THERAPY; MARRIAGE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; COUPLES THERAPY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MARITAL THERAPY; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PROCESSES; TRANSFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGY); TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 11244325806     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2004.00032.x     Document Type: Review

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