Thinking Professional Social Work: Expertise and Professional Ideologies in Social Workers’ Accounts of Their Practice

Journal of Social Work

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 255-273

  Fargion, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

professional cultures; social work knowledge; social work power; theory and practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 37648999988     PISSN: 14680173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468017306071175     Document Type: Article

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