Counseling disaster survivors: Implications for cross-cultural mental health

Counseling Across Cultures

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 325-340

  Bemak, Fred ^a   Chung, Rita Chi Ying ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79551490100     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4135/9781483329314.n19     Document Type: Chapter

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