Identifying mechanisms of change in psychotherapy: Mediators of treatment outcome

Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-9

  Johansson, Paul ^a   Høglend, Per ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BULIMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; DEPRESSION; FAMILY THERAPY; GRIEF; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SOCIAL PHOBIA;

EID: 33846952528     PISSN: 10633995     EISSN: 10990879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpp.514     Document Type: Article

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