Hope in the process: conducting systemically orientated trauma work within the context of the peace process in Northern Ireland

Hope and Despair in Narrative and Family Therapy: Adversity, forgiveness and reconciliation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 113-124

  Coulter, Stephen ^a   Healey, Arlene ^b   Reilly, Isobel ^c  

^a Clinical Coordinator of the Family Trauma Centre   (Ireland)

^b Family Trauma Centre in Belfast   (Ireland)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34547314617     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203028438_12     Document Type: Chapter

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