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7 - Intolerance of Uncertainty

from Section 2 - Transdiagnostic Processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 December 2018

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R. Nicholas Carleton ,
Kelly Correa ,
Stewart A. Shankman  and
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The Cambridge Handbook of Anxiety and Related Disorders , pp. 196 - 226
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