Clients' Pretreatment Counseling Expectations as Predictors of the Working Alliance

Journal of Counseling Psychology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 528-534

  Patterson, Candace L ^a   Uhlin, Brian ^a   Anderson, Timothy ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

alliance; expectancies; expectations; pretreatment client characteristics

Indexed keywords

EID: 57349200535     PISSN: 00220167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013289     Document Type: Article

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