Contemporary psychotherapy: Promoting personal responsibility for therapeutic change

Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 369-376

  Overholser, James C ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attribution; Change; Psychotherapy; Responsibility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIETY;

EID: 26444509759     PISSN: 00220116     EISSN: 15733564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10879-005-6699-4     Document Type: Article

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