It's Not Your Heart: Group Treatment for Non-Cardiac Chest Pain

Journal for Specialists in Group Work

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 296-315

  Hess, Sherry M ^a  

^a BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

group psychoeducational therapy; non cardiac chest pain; panic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858124731     PISSN: 01933922     EISSN: 15496295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01933922.2011.615014     Document Type: Article

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