Information Processing as Problem Solving: A Collaborative Approach to Dealing With Students Exhibiting Insufficient Competence

Training and Education in Professional Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 193-201

  Wester, Stephen R ^a   Christianson, Heidi Fowell ^a   Fouad, Nadya A ^a   Santiago Rivera, Azara L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical competence; clinical training; faculty; gatekeeping; information processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749192737     PISSN: 19313918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1931-3918.2.4.193     Document Type: Article

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