Students' psychological web consulting: Function and outcome evaluation

British Journal of Guidance and Counselling

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 243-255

  Efstathiou, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Online psychological student counselling in higher education; Web consulting; Web counselling

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449495370     PISSN: 03069885     EISSN: 14693534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03069880902956983     Document Type: Article

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