Assessing verbal elaboration of affect in clinical interviews: Exploring sex differences

Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 227-247

  Lecours, Serge ^a   Sanlian, Natali ^b   Bouchard, Marc André ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATIENT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SEX DIFFERENCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; AFFECT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; SEX FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 36249026929     PISSN: 00259284     EISSN: 00259284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/bumc.2007.71.3.227     Document Type: Article

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