Resilience in couples: A view of the landscape

Couple Resilience: Emerging Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 3-22

  Skerrett, Karen ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

"We" coping; Adaptation; Mutuality; Relational resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942910262     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9909-6_1     Document Type: Chapter

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