Preventing depression: Culturally relevant group work with black women

Research on Social Work Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 626-634

  Jones, Lani V ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Black women; Depression; Group work; Psychosocial competence; Treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349091279     PISSN: 10497315     EISSN: 15527581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049731507308982     Document Type: Conference Paper

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