Integrating clients' moment‐to‐moment ratings into psychotherapy research: A novel approach.
Counselling and psychotherapy researchers have considerably advanced the field's understanding of psychotherapy processes and how they relate to treatment outcomes. Despite these advances, little is known about the client's perspective of changes in psychotherapy processes that occur throughout a gi...
| Published in: | Counselling & Psychotherapy Research Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 456 - 463 |
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| Format: | case study review tables/charts Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2020
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