Making sense of client data: Clinical experience and confirmationism revisited

American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 375-391

  Sladeczek, Ingrid E ^a   Dumont, Frank ^b   Martel, Chantal A ^b   Karagiannakis, Anastasia ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OUTPATIENT; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 33846635924     PISSN: 00029564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2006.60.4.375     Document Type: Article

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