The Australian Psychology Workforce 4: An analysis of psychologists in private practice providing medicare-funded services

Australian Psychologist

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 189-196

  Stokes, David ^a   Mathews, Rebecca ^a   Grenyer, Brin F S ^b   Stokes, K ^a  

^a The Australian Psychological Society Ltd   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Independent private practice; Medicare; Psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956408076     PISSN: 00050067     EISSN: 17429544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00050067.2010.501035     Document Type: Article

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