Ambivalence in Psychotherapy: Facilitating Readiness to Change.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Ambivalence in psychotherapy; facilitating readiness to change.

Engle, David E. and Hal Arkowitz.

Guilford Pr.

2006

240 pages

$30.00

Hardcover

RC480

Engle, a therapist in private practice, and Arkowitz, a professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, Tucson, redefine resistance as ambivalence and present several approaches ...

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