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Chapter 9 - Stress, traumatic, and bereavement reactions

from Section 2 - Mental disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2016

By
Philip Dodd  and
Fionnuala Kelly
Edited by
Colin Hemmings  and
Nick Bouras
Colin Hemmings
Affiliation:
Albion Place Medical Centre
Nick Bouras
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London
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Psychiatric and Behavioral Disorders in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities , pp. 99 - 108
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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