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Original Articles

Narrative storytelling as both an advocacy tool and a therapeutic process: Perspectives of adult storytellers with acquired brain injury

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Pages 1409-1429 | Received 16 Oct 2018, Accepted 20 Feb 2019, Published online: 01 Mar 2019

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