Staff do know best: Peer & therapist prediction of outcome following treatment for problem drinking

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 235-249

  Long, Clive G ^a   Midgley, Marie ^a   Hollin, Clive R ^b  

^a ST ANDREW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Staff and peer prediction; Treatment outcome for problem drinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 2742605911     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066359709005264     Document Type: Article

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