Credibility and Outcome Expectancy in the Unified Protocol: Relationship to Outcomes

Journal of Experimental Psychopathology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 72-82

  Thompson Hollands, Johanna ^a   Bentley, Kate H ^a   Gallagher, Matthew W ^a   Boswell, James F ^a   Barlow, David H ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

credibility; expectancy; transdiagnostic; treatment; Unified Protocol

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026227197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20438087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5127/jep.033712     Document Type: Article

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