Tailoring positive psychology interventions to treat depressed individuals

Applied Positive Psychology: Improving Everyday Life, Health, Schools, Work, and Society

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 79-96

  Sin, Nancy L ^a   Della Porta, Matthew D ^a   Lyubomirsky, Sonja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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