Deciding to disclose: The importance of maintaining social relationships for well-being after acquired brain injury

The Social Cure: Identity, Health and Well-Being

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 255-271

  Jones, Janelle M ^a   Jetten, Jolanda ^a   Haslam, S Alexander ^b   Williams, W Huw ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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