Posttraumatic growth in disaster and emergency work

Handbook of Posttraumatic Growth: Research and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 225-247

  Paton, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

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