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Group Cognitive Therapy for Depression Produces Clinically Significant Reliable Change in Community-based Settings*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Michael J. Scott
Affiliation:
Liverpool Personal Service Society and Department of Psychology, University of Manchester
Stephen G. Stradling
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Manchester

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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1990

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