Innovative moments and poor outcome in narrative therapy

Counselling and Psychotherapy Research

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 129-139

  Santos, Anita ^a   Gonçalves, Miguel M ^b   Matos, Marlene ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF MAIA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Dialogical processes; I moments; Mutual in feeding; Narrative therapy; Poor outcome case

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650060287     PISSN: 14733145     EISSN: 17461405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733140903398153     Document Type: Article

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