A qualitative investigation into the online counselling relationship: To meet or not to meet, that is the question

Counselling and Psychotherapy Research

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 316-326

  Dunn, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

email; higher education; interpretative phenomenological analysis; online counselling; students; therapeutic relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870540446     PISSN: 14733145     EISSN: 17461405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733145.2012.669772     Document Type: Article

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