Exploration of Session Process: Relationship to Depth and Alliance

Psychotherapy

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 391-400

  Lingiardi, Vittorio ^a   Colli, Antonello ^b   Gentile, Daniela ^a   Tanzilli, Annalisa ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Depth; PQS; Psychotherapy process; Therapeutic alliance; Therapist interventions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PROCESSES; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 83755172107     PISSN: 00333204     EISSN: 19391536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025248     Document Type: Article

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