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International Perspectives on Stress & Coping
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Original Articles

Suicide Bereavement and Complicated Grief: Experiential Avoidance as a Mediating Mechanism

Pages 325-334 | Received 13 Dec 2014, Accepted 19 Jan 2015, Published online: 19 Feb 2016

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