Internally displaced East Timorese: Challenges and lessons of large-scale emergency assistance

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

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 187-228

  Kostelny, Kathleen ^a,b   Wessells, Michael ^b,c  

^a ERIKSON INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Christian Children's Fund   (United States)

^c RANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 33846143423     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781410610263     Document Type: Chapter

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