Family Recovery from Addiction and Trauma: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Mothers’ Lived Experience

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Missouridou, E. et al. (2023). Family Recovery from Addiction and Trauma: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Mothers’ Lived Experience. In: Vlamos, P. (eds) GeNeDis 2022. GeNeDis 2022. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 1425. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31986-0_10

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