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Resilience as a Coping Mechanism: A Common Story of Vietnamese Refugee Women

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  1. San Diego State University, San Diego

    Tan Phan

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  1. Graduate Program in Counselling Psychology, Trinity Western University, 7600 Glover Road, Langley, British Columbia, V2Y 1Y1, Canada

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Phan, T. (2006). Resilience as a Coping Mechanism: A Common Story of Vietnamese Refugee Women. In: Wong, P.T.P., Wong, L.C.J. (eds) Handbook of Multicultural Perspectives on Stress and Coping. International and Cultural Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-26238-5_18

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