Staying in the Mess: Teaching students and practitioners to work effectively in the swamp of important problems

Social Work with Groups

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 79-94

  Salmon, Robert ^a   Steinberg, Dominique Moyse ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Group leadership; Group work; Problem solving; Social work with groups; Staying in the mess

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848852263     PISSN: 01609513     EISSN: 15409481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J009v30n04_06     Document Type: Article

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