Adding ‘Flock’ to ‘Fight and Flight’: A Honeycomb of Resilience Where Supply of Relationships Meets Demand for Support

Journal of Psychology in Africa

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-42

  Ebersöhn, Liesel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Affiliation; Collective; Flock; Poverty; Relationship resourced resilience; Relationships; Resources; Sense of coherence; Support seeking

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012435012     PISSN: 14330237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14330237.2012.10874518     Document Type: Article

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