Should your lips be zipped? How therapist self-disclosure and non-disclosure affects clients

Counselling and Psychotherapy Research

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 96-104

  Hanson, Jean ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

alliance; non disclosure; skill; Therapist self disclosure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTERVENING VARIABLE; LIP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN; SELF DISCLOSURE; SKILL; THEORETICAL STUDY; THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE;

EID: 43949145249     PISSN: 14733145     EISSN: 17461405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441690500226658     Document Type: Article

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