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Video Games: A Complementary Therapy for Veterans with Serious Mental Illness

Open Access
|Jan 2022

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Language: English
Page range: 83 - 86
Submitted on: Sep 10, 2021
Accepted on: Nov 7, 2021
Published on: Jan 28, 2022
Published by: Virginia Tech Publishing
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

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