Contexts of vulnerability and resilience: Childhood maltreatment, cognitive functioning and close relationships

The Social Ecology of Resilience: A Handbook of Theory and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 187-198

  Wekerle, Christine ^a,b   Waechter, Randall ^a   Chung, Ronald ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Centre for Research on Violence Against Women and Children   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0586-3_16     Document Type: Chapter

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