Social workers' attitudes about psychotropic drug treatment with youths

Social Work

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 211-222

  Moses, Tally ^a   Kirk, Stuart A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Psychiatric drugs; Social workers; Treatment; Youths

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749061068     PISSN: 00378046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sw/51.3.211     Document Type: Article

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