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26 - Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

from Section 6 - Etiology and Phenomenology of Specific Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 December 2018

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Katherine Buchholz ,
Zoe Feingold  and
Tara E. Galovski
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The Cambridge Handbook of Anxiety and Related Disorders , pp. 723 - 742
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