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Research Article

Health-care staff attitudes towards self-harm patients

(Postdoctoral Fellow) , (Professor) & (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Pages 713-720 | Received 15 Dec 2009, Accepted 01 Feb 2010, Published online: 19 Jul 2010

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