Questions as interventions: Perceptions of socratic, solution focused, and diagnostic questioning styles

Journal of Rational - Emotive and Cognitive - Behavior Therapy

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 115-140

  Bishop, Wandajune ^a   Fish, Jefferson M ^b  

^a MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 4644368102     PISSN: 08949085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023005015329     Document Type: Article

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