Insight and Attribution in Psychotherapy / Ronald P. Matross and F. James Moynihan.

This paper describes a therapy analogue experiment in which an interviewer's interpretation of a client's presenting problem was systematically varied along dimensions suggested by causal attribution theory. Subjects were 64 undergraduate students with the same presenting problem of unassertiveness....

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Main Authors: Matross, Ronald P.
Moynihan, F. James (Author)
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1976.
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Physical Description:24 pages
Format: Microfilm Book

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