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Goodson, P., Walsh-Buhi, E.R., Reeves, S., Wilson, K.L. (2017). Abstinence Education. In: Levesque, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32132-5_54-2
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