Sleep Medicine Reviews
Volume 4, Issue 3 , Pages 299-314 , June 2000

Behavioural treatments for sleep problems in children and adolescents with physical illness, psychological problems or intellectual disabilities

  • Luci Wiggs

      Affiliations

    • University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry, Park Hospital for Children, Oxford, UK
    • ,
  • Karyn France

      Affiliations

    • Education Department, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

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doi: 10.1053/smrv.1999.0094

Sleep Medicine Reviews
Volume 4, Issue 3 , Pages 299-314 , June 2000

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