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Lawrence A Palinkas1

  • 1Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0807, USA. lpalinkas@ucsd.edu

The American Psychologist
|September 16, 2003
PubMed

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