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10 - Emotion Regulation

from Section 2 - Transdiagnostic Processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 December 2018

By
Katya C. Fernandez ,
Amanda S. Morrison  and
James J. Gross
Edited by
Bunmi O. Olatunji
Bunmi O. Olatunji
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
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The Cambridge Handbook of Anxiety and Related Disorders , pp. 282 - 306
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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