Positioning oneself within an epistemology: Refining our thinking about integrative approaches

Family Process

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 349-368

  Dickerson, Victoria C ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Epistemology; Integrative; Poststructural; Social Constructionism; Structural; Systems

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FAMILY THERAPY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

FAMILY THERAPY; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 77956537083     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: 15455300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01327.x     Document Type: Article

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