Pain and Defense Versus Grace and Justice: The Relational Conflict and Restoration Model

The Family Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 203-212

  Sells, James N ^a,b   Beckenbach, John ^a,b   Patrick, Shawn ^a,b  

^a REGENT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

grace; justice; reconciliation; relational conflict; relational conflict and restoration model

Indexed keywords

EID: 69749096683     PISSN: 10664807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1066480709337802     Document Type: Article

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