Readiness to adaptively change under three conditions: Clinical, careers, and natural change situations

Australian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 216-226

  Bowles, Terry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive change; Therapeutic change; Vocational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149462057     PISSN: 00049530     EISSN: 17429536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049531003667372     Document Type: Article

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