Internet-based bereavement interventions and support: An overview

Complicated Grief: Scientific Foundations for Health Care Professionals

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 235-247

  Wagner, Birgit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

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EID: 84901260588     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203105115     Document Type: Chapter

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