Effects of Neuro-Linguistic Psychotherapy on psychological difficulties and perceived quality of life

Counselling and Psychotherapy Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-49

  Stipancic, Melita ^a   Renner, Walter ^b   Schütz, Peter ^c   Dond, Renata ^a  

^a Croatian Austrian Training Center for NLPt   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c Oesterreichisches Training Zentrum fuer NLP and NLPt   (Austria)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Neuro linguistic psychotherapy; Psychological difficulties; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649244788     PISSN: 14733145     EISSN: 17461405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733140903225240     Document Type: Article

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