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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and humanistic psychotherapy: an integrative approximation

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Pages 347-361 | Received 16 May 2018, Accepted 13 Mar 2019, Published online: 26 Mar 2019

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