Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 2 , Pages 135-141 , March 2003

Age differences in stress process of recent immigrants

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☆ Supported in part by the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption (A.P.).

☆☆ Address reprint requests to Michael Ritsner M.D., Ph.D., Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post Hefer 38814, Israel.

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doi: 10.1053/comp.2003.50026

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 2 , Pages 135-141 , March 2003

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