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Part II - Trauma Care for Refugee Families

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2020

Lucia De Haene
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University of Leuven, Belgium
Cécile Rousseau
Affiliation:
McGill University, Montréal
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Working with Refugee Families
Trauma and Exile in Family Relationships
, pp. 117 - 264
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