Guidelines for clinical case reports in behavioral clinical psychology

International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 765-777

  Virués Ortega, Javier ^a   Moreno Rodríguez, Rafael ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Case series; Case studies; Clinical case formulation; Guidelines; Single case experiment; Theoretical study

Indexed keywords

EID: 56549094570     PISSN: 16972600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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