Child risk and parental resistance: Can motivational interviewing improve the practice of child and family social workers in working with parental alcohol misuse?

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1302-1319

  Forrester, Donald ^c   McCambridge, Jim ^d   Waissbein, Clara ^d   Emlyn Jones, Rhoda ^a   Rollnick, Stephen ^b  

^a Substance Misuse Services   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Alcohol misuse; Child protection; Motivational Interviewing; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 55349120528     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: 1468263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcl394     Document Type: Article

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