Doctoral education in social work: What we know and what we need to know

Social Work

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 71-81

  Anastas, Jeane W ^a   Kuerbis, Alexis N ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Doctoral students; Social work education; Social work profession

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149504253     PISSN: 00378046     EISSN: 15456846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sw/54.1.71     Document Type: Article

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