Collaborative Relationships and Dialogic Conversations: Ideas for a Relationally Responsive Practice

Family Process

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 8-24

  Anderson, Harlene ^a  

^a Houston Galveston Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative Relationships; Dialogic Conversations; Philosophical Stance; Postmodern Therapy; Way of Being; Withness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COOPERATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNCERTAINTY;

COMMUNICATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84858604301     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: 15455300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2012.01385.x     Document Type: Article

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