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Journal of Loss and Trauma
International Perspectives on Stress & Coping
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The Role of Avoidance in Complicated Grief: A Detailed Examination of the Grief-Related Avoidance Questionnaire (GRAQ) in a Large Sample of Individuals with Complicated Grief

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Pages 533-547 | Received 15 Aug 2015, Accepted 24 Nov 2015, Published online: 31 Mar 2016

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