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Practitioner’s Guide to Empirically Based Measures of Anxiety pp 133–158Cite as

Measures for Specific Phobia

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    Martin M. Antony

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Antony, M.M. (2002). Measures for Specific Phobia. In: Antony, M.M., Orsillo, S.M., Roemer, L. (eds) Practitioner’s Guide to Empirically Based Measures of Anxiety. AABT Clinical Assessment Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47628-2_12

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