Community attitudes towards culture-influenced mental illness: Scrupulosity vs. Nonreligious OCD among Orthodox Jews

Journal of Community Psychology

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 949-958

  Pirutinsky, Steven ^a   Rosmarin, David H ^b   Pargament, Kenneth I ^b  

^a GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 76749168173     PISSN: 00904392     EISSN: 15206629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcop.20341     Document Type: Article

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