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Teaching Not-Knowing: Strategies for Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy Supervision

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Watson, P., Raju, P. & Soklaridis, S. Teaching Not-Knowing: Strategies for Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy Supervision. Acad Psychiatry 41, 55–61 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-016-0552-9

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