Coping with epilepsy: Research and interventions

Coping with Chronic Illness and Disability: Theoretical, Empirical, and Clinical Aspects

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 241-266

  Bishop, Malachy ^a   Allen, Chase A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-48670-3_12     Document Type: Chapter

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