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Joana Coutinho1, Eugenia Ribeiro, Clara Hill

  • 1School of Psychology, University of Minho, 4710 Braga, Portugal. joanacoutinho@psi.uminho.pt

Psychotherapy Research : Journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research
|July 1, 2011
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