Assessing Anxiety in Youth with the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1537-4416,1537-4424
DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2013.814541