Re-storying loss: Fostering growth in the posttraumatic narrative

Handbook of Posttraumatic Growth: Research and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 68-80

  Neimeyer, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

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