Handbook of Evidence-based Psychotherapies || Adjuvant Psychological Therapy for Patients with Chronic Physical Illness

✍ Scribed by Freeman, Chris; Power, Mick

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
• Year: 2007
• Weight: 224 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 0471498203
• DOI: 10.1002/9780470713242.ch24

✦ Synopsis

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