Therapist-client five-factor personality similarity: A brief report

Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 232-241

  Coleman, Daniel ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 33748949881     PISSN: 00259284     EISSN: 00259284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/bumc.2006.70.3.232     Document Type: Article

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