Prevention: Intervening with couples at challenging family transition points

How Couple Relationships Shape our World: Clinical Practice, Research, and Policy Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 1-14

  Cowan, Carolyn Pape ^a   Cowan, Philip A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780429475597-1     Document Type: Chapter

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