Clients' feelings during termination of psychodynamically oriented psychotherapy

Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 68-81

  Roe, David ^a   Dekel, Rachel ^b   Harel, Galit ^b   Fennig, Shmuel ^c   Fennig, Silvana ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c SHALVATA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^d SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OPEN ENDED QUESTIONNAIRE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIVATE SECTOR; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 33645068433     PISSN: 00259284     EISSN: 00259284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/bumc.2006.70.1.68     Document Type: Article

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