‘Does class count?’ Social class and counselling

Counselling and Psychotherapy Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 157-163

  Ballinger, Liz ^a   Wright, Jeannie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

co operative inquiry; counselling and psychotherapy practice; counselling and psychotherapy training; middle class; Social class; working class

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LITERATURE; MUSIC; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 70449486308     PISSN: 14733145     EISSN: 17461405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733140701571316     Document Type: Article

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