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  1. Faculty of Science and Health School of Nursing, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Pamela Gallagher BA Mod, DipStat, PhD (Senior Lecturer in Psychology) (Senior Lecturer in Psychology)

  2. Dublin Psychoprosthetics Group, Ireland

    Pamela Gallagher BA Mod, DipStat, PhD (Senior Lecturer in Psychology), Deirdre Desmond BA, DipStat, PhD (Lecturer) & Malcolm MacLachlan BSc, MSc, MA, PhD, DipBA, FPSI, FTCD, MRIA (Associate Professor) (Senior Lecturer in Psychology),  (Lecturer) &  (Associate Professor)

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Wolfe, D.L., Hebert, J.S., Miller, W.C., Deathe, A.B., Devlin, M., Pallaveshi, L. (2008). Psychological Adjustment to Lower Limb Amputation: An Evaluation of Outcome Measurement Tools. In: Gallagher, P., Desmond, D., MacLachlan, M. (eds) Psychoprosthetics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-980-4_6

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