The Systemic Impact of Traumatized Children

Handbook of Stress, Trauma, and the Family

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 179-202

  Nelson Goff, Briana S ^a   Schwerdtfeger, Kami L ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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