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Traumatic experiences and posttraumatic stress reactions in children and their parents from Kurdistan and Sweden

Viveka Sundelin Wahlsten Department of Neuroscience, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Uppsala University Hospital, SE-750 17 Uppsala, Sweden
Pages 395-400 | Published online: 12 Jul 2009

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