The helpfulness of holistic arts-based group work with children living in foster care

Social Work with Groups

Volumn 32, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 29-46

  Coholic, Diana ^a   Lougheed, Sean ^a   Lebreton, Julie ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arts based; Children in care; Experiential; Group therapy; Group work; Holistic; Self esteem

Indexed keywords

EID: 60749122596     PISSN: 01609513     EISSN: 15409481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01609510802290966     Document Type: Article

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