Meditative practices for children and adolescents

Innovative Interventions in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 141-161

  Wisner, Betsy ^a   Starzec, James J ^b  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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