An investigation of session impact and alliance in internet based psychotherapy: Preliminary results

Counselling and Psychotherapy Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 164-168

  Reynolds, D'Arcy J ^a   Stiles, William B ^a   Grohol, John M ^b  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PsychCentralcom   (United States)

Author keywords

online data collection; Online therapy; psychotherapy process research; session impact; therapeutic alliance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; E-MAIL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNET; PRELIMINARY DATA; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE;

EID: 34848910985     PISSN: 14733145     EISSN: 17461405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733140600853617     Document Type: Article

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