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A new short version of the Cognitive Therapy Scale Revised (CTSR-4): preliminary psychometric evaluation

Sven Alfonsson1,2, Georgios Karvelas3,4, Johanna Linde3,4

  • 1Centre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden. sven.alfonsson@ki.se.

BMC Psychology
|February 5, 2022
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Keywords:
CBTPsychometricsPsychotherapy trainingTherapist competence

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