Psychosocial rehabilitation

Broken Spirits: The Treatment of Traumatized Asylum Seekers, Refugees and War and Torture Victims

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 609-636

  Ekblad, Solvig ^a   Jaranson, James M ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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