Chinese students' attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help

International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling

Volumn 29, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 187-202

  Goh, Michael ^a   Xie, Baozhen ^a   Herting Wahl, Kay ^a   Zhong, Gulan ^b   Lian, Fengqin ^a   Romano, John L ^a  

^a Department of Educational Psychology   (United States)

^b CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese help seeking; Counseling in China; Help seeking attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 36448931664     PISSN: 01650653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10447-007-9038-5     Document Type: Article

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