Picking up the pieces: Family functioning in the aftermath of natural disaster

Family Matters

Volumn 84, Issue , 2010, Pages 79-88

  Caruana, Catherine ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF FAMILY STUDIES   (Australia)

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