Starting self-help groups: Empowering roles for social workers

Social Work with Groups

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 83-92

  Wituk, Scott A ^a   Tiemeyer, Shelly ^a   Commer, Amy ^a   Warren, Mary ^a   Meissen, Greg ^a  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forming groups; Leadership; Mutual help; Self help groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747384030     PISSN: 01609513     EISSN: 15409481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J009v26n01_06     Document Type: Article

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