Creative consensus on interpretations of qualitative data: The ward method

Psychotherapy Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4-5, 2009, Pages 558-565

  Schielke, Hugo Josef ^a   Fishman, Jonathan Louis ^a   Osatuke, Katerine ^a   Stiles, William B ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Couples and family systems therapy; Process research; Qualitative research methods

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS; FAMILY THERAPY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS;

CONSENSUS; FAMILY THERAPY; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 76149110266     PISSN: 10503307     EISSN: 14684381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10503300802621180     Document Type: Article

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