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Practitioner’s Guide to Empirically Based Measures of Anxiety

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, 02125

    Lizabeth Roemer

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  1. St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton

    Martin M. Antony

  2. McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

    Martin M. Antony

  3. VA Boston Healthcare System and Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts

    Susan M. Orsillo

  4. University of Massachusetts at Boston, Boston, Massachusetts

    Lizabeth Roemer

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Roemer, L. (2002). Measures for Generalized Anxiety Disorder. 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_16

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