Assessing Patients’ Cognitive Therapy Skills: Initial Evaluation of the Competencies of Cognitive Therapy Scale

Cognitive Therapy and Research

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 559-569

  Strunk, Daniel R ^a   Hollars, Shannon N ^a   Adler, Abby D ^a,b   Goldstein, Lizabeth A ^a   Braun, Justin D ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Cognitive therapy; Depression; Therapy skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939894271     PISSN: 01475916     EISSN: 15732819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10608-014-9617-9     Document Type: Article

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