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8 - Distress Tolerance

from Section 2 - Transdiagnostic Processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 December 2018

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Lance M. Rappaport ,
Erin C. Berenz ,
Carl Lejuez  and
Roxann Roberson-Nay
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Bunmi O. Olatunji
Bunmi O. Olatunji
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Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
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The Cambridge Handbook of Anxiety and Related Disorders , pp. 227 - 254
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