Resilient relationships: Cultivating the healing potential of couple stories

Creating Connection: A Relational-Cultural Approach with Couples

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 45-60

  Skerrett, Karen ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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