Green care farms, a safe community between illness or addiction and the wider society

Therapeutic Communities

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 310-322

  Elings, Marjolein ^a   Hassink, Jan ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Addiction care; Focus group interviews; Green care farms; Psychiatry; Rehabilitation; Therepeutic community

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149213946     PISSN: 09641866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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