Microskills Training: Evolution, Reexamination, and Call for Reform

The Counseling Psychologist

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 800-824

  Ridley, Charles R ^a   Kelly, Shannon M ^b   Mollen, Debra ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

counselor training; critique of microskills

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960441527     PISSN: 00110000     EISSN: 15523861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011000010378438     Document Type: Article

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