On books: The best we have: A critique of Ladouceur, Sylvain, Boutin, and Doucet's Understanding and Treating the Pathological Gambler

Behavior Analyst

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 119-124

  Weatherly, Jeffrey N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

gambling behavior; gambling treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748938503     PISSN: 07386729     EISSN: 21968918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03392099     Document Type: Review

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