Internally displaced Angolans: A child-focused, community-based intervention

The Mental Health of Refugees: Ecological Approaches to Healing and Adaptation

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 67-94

  Wessells, Michael ^a,b   Monteiro, Carlinda ^c  

^a Christian Children's Fund   (United States)

^b RANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Christian Children's Fund   (Angola)

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EID: 3242758099     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781410610263     Document Type: Chapter

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