Goal Consensus and Collaboration

Psychotherapy Relationships That Work: Evidence-Based Responsiveness

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Tryon, Georgiana Shick ^a   Winograd, Greta ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Goal consensus; Meta analysis; Therapeutic alliance; Therapy relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923055635     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199737208.003.0007     Document Type: Chapter

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