My home is not my castle: Follow-up of residents of shelters for homeless youth

Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 257-279

  Peled, Einat ^a   Spiro, Shimon ^a   Dekel, Rachel ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Family Reunification; Follow up; Runaway and Homeless Youths; Shelters

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645124903     PISSN: 07380151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10560-005-0011-z     Document Type: Article

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