Spiritual involvement as a predictor to completing a salvation army substance abuse treatment program

Research on Social Work Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 239-245

  Wolf Branigin, Michael ^a,c   Duke, Jerry ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Salvation Army National Headquarters

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Attractors; Bayesian; Complexity; Faith based; Substance abuse

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846924524     PISSN: 10497315     EISSN: 15527581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049731506294373     Document Type: Article

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