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A Pragmatic Perspective toward Treating Children with Phobia and Anxiety Problems

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I fear it will always be as if we are walking on infirm or swampy ground and this is good because if the ground were firm, we’d have no reason to go anywhere.

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Silverman, W.K., Kurtines, W.M. (1999). A Pragmatic Perspective toward Treating Children with Phobia and Anxiety Problems. In: Russ, S.W., Ollendick, T.H. (eds) Handbook of Psychotherapies with Children and Families. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4755-6_26

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