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Study of the mental health problems of war-affected youths in northern Uganda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Kennedy Amone-P'Olak
Kennedy Amone-P'Olak*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Humanities, Gulu University, Uganda, email ka387@cam.ac.uk
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International Psychiatry , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , May 2012 , pp. 49 - 50
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