The Relationship between Marriage and Family Therapists and Complementary and Alternative Medicine Approaches: A Qualitative Study.
In this article, we delineate the qualitative phase of a mixed-method research study focused on understanding the relationship between Clinical Members of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) and complementary alternative medicine (CAM). Based on an analysis of the data der...
| Published in: | Journal of Marital & Family Therapy Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 115 - 127 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
January 2006
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