Worry in Psychopathology

Worry and its Psychological Disorders: Theory, Assessment and Treatment

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 41-50

  Purdon, Christine ^a   Harrington, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agoraphobia; Anxiety; Clinical interventions; Panic disorder; Worry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889436293     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470713143.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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