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directive group psychotherapy

a type of group psychotherapy designed to help members adjust to their environment through educational tasks, group guidance, group counseling, and therapeutic recreation. [developed by Russian-born U.S. psychotherapist Samuel Richard Slavson (1890–1981)]

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extremely low birth weight (ELBW)

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