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Gold, C., Saarikallio, S.H., McFerran, K. (2017). Music Therapy. In: Levesque, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32132-5_203-2

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