Towards a model of self-awareness development for counselling and psychotherapy training

Counselling Psychology Quarterly

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 190-207

  Pieterse, Alex L ^a   Lee, Minsun ^b   Ritmeester, Arthur ^b   Collins, Noah M ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

counselling; integrated model; psychotherapy training; self awareness; self awareness training

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878994244     PISSN: 09515070     EISSN: 14693674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09515070.2013.793451     Document Type: Article

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