A Psychiatric Social Worker Abroad
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membership of the Board of the World Federation for Mental Health has stimulated but not created my interest in international work in the mental health field. Almost the first beginning pre-dated this by 16 years. Called to Switzerland by "Sepeg" immediately after the war, I learned vividly there the moral support and comfort which colleagues from other countries could give in dealing with such problems as "child victims of the war". Together we worked out principles which alone we could, not have
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دوره 24 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1965