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Norris, F.H., Alegría, M. (2008). Promoting Disaster Recovery in Ethnic-Minority Individuals and Communities. In: Marsella, A.J., Johnson, J.L., Watson, P., Gryczynski, J. (eds) Ethnocultural Perspectives on Disaster and Trauma. International and Cultural Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73285-5_2

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