Social work students' and practitioners' views on the need for training Caribbean social workers in disaster management

International Social Work

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 383-394

  Rock, Letnie F ^a,b   Corbin, Charles A ^b  

^a Department of Government Sociology and Social Work ^*  (Barbados)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Cultural competence; Disaster; Disaster management; Marginalized groups; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147190046     PISSN: 00208728     EISSN: 14617234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020872807076051     Document Type: Article

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