For the butterflies I never chased, I grieve: Incorporating grief and loss issues in treatment with survivors of childhood sexual abuse

Journal of Loss and Trauma

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 125-148

  Sofka, Carla J ^a  

^a SKIDMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

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