Posttraumatic Growth: What's It All About?

Psychological Inquiry

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 48-52

  McMillen, J Curtis ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

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