Posttraumatic Growth in the Turkish Population

Posttraumatic Growth and Culturally Competent Practice: Lessons Learned from Around the Globe

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 49-64

  Kiliç, Cengiz ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bilateral relations; Political instability; Posttraumatic growth; Turkish culture; Turkish population

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886118476     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118270028.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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