Racism and Psychological and Emotional Injury: Recognizing and Assessing Race-Based Traumatic Stress

The Counseling Psychologist

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-105

  Carter, Robert T ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1177/0011000006292033     Document Type: Article

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