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1 - Critical Thinking about Psychotherapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2019

Stephen Hupp
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Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
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Pseudoscience in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
A Skeptical Field Guide
, pp. 1 - 13
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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