Facing the Dragon Together: Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy With Trauma Survivors

Handbook of Stress, Trauma, and the Family

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 493-512

  Johnson, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

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