Referral to group psychotherapy: A retrospective study on patients' personality features associated with clinicians' judgments

International Journal of Group Psychotherapy

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 515-524

  Visintini, Raffaele ^a,c   Ubbiali, Alessandro ^a   Donati, Deborah ^a   Chiorri, Carlo ^b   Maffei, Cesare ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; GROUP DYNAMICS; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENTS; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 35549001700     PISSN: 00207284     EISSN: 00207284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/ijgp.2007.57.4.515     Document Type: Article

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