"Almost there"...Why clients fail to engage in family therapy: An exploratory study

Contemporary Family Therapy

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 211-224

  Wang, Meng Ning ^a   Sandberg, Jonathan ^a   Zavada, Amy ^a,b   Mittal, Mona ^a,b   Gosling, Anne ^a,b   Rosenberg, Tziporah ^a,b   Jeffrey, Aaron ^a,b   McPheters, Justin ^a,b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Marriage and Family Therapy Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Client dropout; Client non engagement; Client recruitment; Marital and family therapy; Mental health service

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745322632     PISSN: 08922764     EISSN: 15733335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10591-006-9001-3     Document Type: Article

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