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Psychotherapy: A Cognitive Perspective

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A Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Human Stress Response

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Having provided the reader with what we feel is a comprehensive review of the phenomenology of the human stress response, this chapter begins our focus upon therapeutic intervention.

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Everly, G.S., Lating, J.M. (2013). Psychotherapy: A Cognitive Perspective. In: A Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Human Stress Response. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5538-7_8

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