Psychiatric Social Service in a Children's Hospital
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Psychiatric Social Work in a Mental Hospital
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health
سال: 1937
ISSN: 0002-9572
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.27.11.1181-b