Resilience and posttraumatic growth in children

Handbook of Posttraumatic Growth: Research and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 264-288

  Kilmer, Ryan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

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