The effect of therapist-client racial similarity on client satisfaction and therapist evaluation of treatment

Contemporary Family Therapy

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 279-292

  Murphy, Megan J ^a   Faulkner, Rhonda A ^b   Behrens, Courtney ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

client satisfaction; marriage and family therapy; race; therapist client similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 4444304560     PISSN: 08922764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:COFT.0000037915.95303.28     Document Type: Article

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