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Prof Vera Roos is a clinical and research psychologist at the North-West University’s Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa. She has published peer-reviewed papers and presented her research about enabling contexts, relational well-being, and socialgerontology nationally and internationally. Vera developed the Mmogo method™, which is regarded as a visual narrative that assists people to recount experiences and to make sense of the contexts in which they function.
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Knoll, S., Roos, V., Bretherton, D., Ride, A. (2011). Kenya. In: Ride, A., Bretherton, D. (eds) Community Resilience in Natural Disasters. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230339323_5
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