Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 11 , Pages 1053-1055 , November 2009

The Era of Affluence and Its Discontents

,Accepted 12 June 2009.

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 Schuyler W. Henderson, M.D., and Michael S. Jellinek, M.D., served as Assistant Editors for this editorial.

PII: S0890-8567(09)60251-3

doi: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e3181b8be5c

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 11 , Pages 1053-1055 , November 2009