The Abstinence Violation Effect: Investigating Lapse and Relapse Phenomena using the Relapse Prevention Model with Domestically Violent Men

New Zealand Journal of Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 67-75

  King, Lucy L ^a   Polaschek, Devon L L ^b  

^a Psychological Service

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

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