Online counselling: The experience of counsellors providing synchronous single-session counselling to young people

Counselling and Psychotherapy Research

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 110-116

  Bambling, Matthew ^a   King, Robert ^b,c   Reid, Wendy ^d   Wegner, Karly ^d  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Mater Hospital   (Australia)

^d Kids Help Line   (Australia)

Author keywords

adolescents; counselling; counsellors; Internet; mental health; online

Indexed keywords

EID: 67651029376     PISSN: 14733145     EISSN: 17461405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733140802055011     Document Type: Article

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