General Systems Thinking and Community-Based Rehabilitation: A Theoretical Exploration

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 113-132

  Johnstone, Christopher ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b 350 Elliott Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular model for CBR; Community based rehabilitation (CBR); Empowerment; Fractal communication; General systems thinking; People with disabilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037231711     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022837610262     Document Type: Article

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