Refugees' views of the effectiveness of support provided by their host countries

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Zepinic, Vito ^a   Bogic, Maria ^a   Priebe, Stefan ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Refugees; Support; Trauma; War

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964674115     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20008066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/ejpt.v3i0.8447     Document Type: Article

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