Addressing the Scope of Self-Care: A Review of Stopping Military Suicide: Veteran Voices to Prevent Deaths by Kate Hendricks Thomas and Sarah Plummer Taylor

Margaret Mary Shields

doi:10.21061/jvs.v7i1.279

Addressing the Scope of Self-Care: A Review of Stopping Military Suicide: Veteran Voices to Prevent Deaths by Kate Hendricks Thomas and Sarah Plummer Taylor

Journal of Veterans Studies

Volume 7 (2021): Issue 1

By: Margaret Mary Shields

Open Access

|Oct 2021

Abstract

A book review of Stopping Military Suicide: Veteran Voices to Prevent Deaths by Kate Hendricks Thomas and Sarah Plummer Taylor. Prager, 2020. 167 pages.

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