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Meeting an adult ally on the way out into the world: Adolescent patients' experiences of useful psychotherapeutic ways of working at an age when independence really matters

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Pages 554-566 | Received 04 Feb 2011, Accepted 05 May 2011, Published online: 06 Jul 2011

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