Using a Life Span Model to Promote Recovery and Growth in Traumatized Veterans

Trauma, Recovery, and Growth: Positive Psychological Perspectives on Posttraumatic Stress

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 233-257

  Lyons, Judith A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Holocaust survivors; Life span model; Psychiatric impairment; Recovery; Traumatized veterans

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888720407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118269718.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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