White gloves and cracked vases: How metaphors help group workers construct new perspectives and responses

Social Work with Groups

Volumn 28, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 247-257

  Duffy, Trudy K ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Group therapy; Group work; Metaphors; Social work education

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745743965     PISSN: 01609513     EISSN: 15409481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J009v28n03_16     Document Type: Review

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