Building Confidence in Psychological Assessment as a Therapeutic Intervention: An Empirically Based Reply to Lilienfeld, Garb, and Wood (2011)

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1056-1062

  Hanson, William E ^a   Poston, John M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Intervention; Meta analysis; Process and outcome; Treatment utility

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY; COUNSELING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NOTE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT AS A THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION; SELF ESTEEM; SELF REPORT;

EID: 83155173473     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025656     Document Type: Note

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