Treating people you never see: Internet-based treatment of the internalising mental disorders

Australian Health Review

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 144-147

  Andrews, Gavin ^a   Titov, Nickolai ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

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EID: 77952871306     PISSN: 01565788     EISSN: 14498944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/AH09775     Document Type: Note

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