Therapeutic collaboration and resistance: Describing the nature and quality of the therapeutic relationship within ambivalence events using the Therapeutic Collaboration Coding System

Psychotherapy Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 346-359

  Ribeiro, António P ^a   Ribeiro, Eugenia ^a   Loura, Joana ^a   Gonçalves, Miguel M ^a   Stiles, William B ^b   Horvath, Adam O ^c   Sousa, Inês ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

alliance; ambivalence; narrative; process research

Indexed keywords

COOPERATION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATIVE THERAPY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATIVE THERAPY; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PROCESSES; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 84898424688     PISSN: 10503307     EISSN: 14684381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10503307.2013.856042     Document Type: Article

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