Is how it is said important? The association between quality of therapist interventions and client processing

Counselling and Psychotherapy Research

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 88-98

  Gordon, Kimberley M ^a   Toukmanian, Shaké G ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

attunement; experiential therapy; meaning exploration; process research; tentativeness; therapist qualities

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 84874472163     PISSN: 14733145     EISSN: 17461405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733140212331384867     Document Type: Article

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