Assessing Resilience in War-Affected Children and Adolescents: A Critical Review

Dimitar Karadzhov

doi:10.5334/jeps.dc

Assessing Resilience in War-Affected Children and Adolescents: A Critical Review

Journal of European Psychology Students

Volume 6 (2015): Issue 3

By: Dimitar Karadzhov

Open Access

|Oct 2015

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