Tragedy and transformation: Meaning reconstruction in the wake of traumatic loss

Death, Bereavement, and Mourning

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 121-134

  Neimeyer, Robert A ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

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