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26 - Promoting Coping Skills in Children, Adolescents, and Parents

What We Have Learned in the Australian Context

from Asia & Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2017

By
Erica Frydenberg
Edited by
Moshe Israelashvili  and
John L. Romano
Moshe Israelashvili
Affiliation:
Tel-Aviv University
John L. Romano
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
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The Cambridge Handbook of International Prevention Science , pp. 606 - 634
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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