Helping alliance and outcome in psychotherapy: What predicts what in routine outpatient treatment?

Psychotherapy Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 167-178

  Puschner, Bernd ^a   Wolf, Markus ^b   Kraft, Susanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LINEAR SYSTEM; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OUTPATIENT CARE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TIME;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 39649107532     PISSN: 10503307     EISSN: 14684381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10503300701367984     Document Type: Article

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