Qualitative Research: Evaluating the Process and the Product

Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 477-499

  Stiles, William B ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empathy as an observation strategy; Process outcome correlation problem; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948102651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470013389.ch24     Document Type: Chapter

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