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Something for everyone: employment interventions in psychotic illness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2014

Eóin Killackey*
Affiliation:
ORYGEN Research Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Department of Psychology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
*
35 Poplar Road, Parkville, 3052 Victoria, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9342 2900; Fax: +61 3 9387 3003; E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

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Intervention Insights
Copyright
Copyright © 2008 Blackwell Munksgaard

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