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Psychometrics of the recovery process inventory

Jeanette M Jerrell1, Victoria C Cousins, Katherine M Roberts

  • 1Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Clinical Education Building, Columbia, SC 29203, USA. jjerrell@gw.mp.sc.edu

The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research
|May 17, 2006
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