Ethnocultural considerations in the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers

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

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 53-80

  Aroche, Jorge ^b   Coello, Mariano J ^a  

^a New South Wales Service   (Australia)

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