Communication processes that promote risk and resiliency in postdivorce families

Handbook of Divorce and Relationship Dissolution

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 435-456

  Afifi, Tamara D ^a   Hamrick, Kellie ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315820880-32     Document Type: Chapter

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