Exploring actor-partner interdependence in family therapy: Whose view (parent or adolescent) best predicts treatment progress?

Journal of Counseling Psychology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 168-175

  Friedlander, Myrna L ^a   Kivlighan, Dennis M ^b   Shaffer, Katharine S ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Actor partner interdependence; Family therapy; Therapeutic alliance; Working alliance

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE; CHARACTER; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; FAMILY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE; CHARACTER; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPENDENCY (PSYCHOLOGY); FAMILY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84860792130     PISSN: 00220167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024199     Document Type: Article

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