Connections between group work and family meetings in child welfare practice: What can we learn from each other?

Social Work with Groups

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-79

  Crampton, David ^a   Natarajan, Aravindhan ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Facilitation; Family Group Decision Making; Team Decisionmaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747389030     PISSN: 01609513     EISSN: 15409481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J009v28n01_05     Document Type: Article

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