Building a therapeutic alliance in brief therapy: The experience of community mental health nurses

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 373-386

  Spiers, Judith A ^a   Wood, Ava ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Edmonton Mental Health Clinic   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOTHERAPY, BRIEF;

EID: 78649463161     PISSN: 08839417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apnu.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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