Fifty years of child and youth care work: Recollections, reflections, and lessons learned

Residential Treatment for Children and Youth

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1-30

  Durkin, Roderick ^a  

^a Sage Hill Camp Inc   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Childcare; Professionalism; Youth care

Indexed keywords

EID: 18244400195     PISSN: 0886571X     EISSN: 15410358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J007v19n04_01     Document Type: Article

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