A new disability for rehabilitation counselors: Iraq war veterans with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder

Journal of Rehabilitation

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 5-14

  Burke, Hillary S ^a   Olney, Marjorie F ^a   Degeneffe, Charles E ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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