Treatment of childhood anxiety in autism spectrum disorders

Handbook of Treating Variants and Complications in Anxiety Disorders

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 83-95

  Lin, C Enjey ^a   Wood, Jeffrey J ^a   Storch, Eric A ^b   Sze, Karen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-6458-7_5     Document Type: Chapter

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