Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Children and Adolescents: Diagnosis, Comorbidity, and Developmental Factors

Handbook of Child and Adolescent Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 17-45

  Moore, Phoebe S ^a   Mariaskin, Amy ^a   March, John ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203936870-8     Document Type: Chapter

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