The healing path: What can counselors learn from aboriginal people about how to heal?

Integrating Traditional Healing Practices into Counseling and Psychotherapy

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 293-304

  McCormick, Rod ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 77952910620     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4135/9781452231648.n25     Document Type: Chapter

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