The resilient trauma survivor

The Posttraumatic Self: Restoring Meaning and Wholeness to Personality

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 369-398

  Wilson, John P ^a   Agaibi, Christine E ^b  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203955932     Document Type: Chapter

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