Posttraumatic Growth in Australian Populations

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 157-172

  Shakespeare Finch, Jane ^a   Morris, Bronwyn ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Cancer Council of Queensland   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian populations; Biodiversity; Posttraumatic growth; Postwar migration; Secularization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886133307     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118270028.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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