Spirituality: A pathway to posttraumatic growth or decline?

Handbook of Posttraumatic Growth: Research and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 121-137

  Pargament, Kenneth I ^a   Desai, Kavita M ^a   McConnell, Kelly M ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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