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Advancing Efforts to Improve Children’s Mental Health in America: A Commentary

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    Gary M. Blau & Larke N. Huang

  2. American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC, USA

    Coretta J. Mallery

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Blau, G.M., Huang, L.N. & Mallery, C.J. Advancing Efforts to Improve Children’s Mental Health in America: A Commentary. Adm Policy Ment Health 37, 140–144 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-010-0290-3

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