Solution-focused brief therapy groupwork with at-risk junior high school students: Enhancing the bottom line

Research on Social Work Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 336-343

  Newsome, W Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

At risk; Groupwork; School failure; Solution focused brief therapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043153517     PISSN: 10497315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049731503262134     Document Type: Article

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