Alliance in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy Relationships That Work: Evidence-Based Responsiveness

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Shirk, Stephen R ^a   Karver, Marc S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Alliance; Child; Meta analysis; Psychotherapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922966814     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199737208.003.0003     Document Type: Chapter

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