Advancing the Africentric paradigm shift discourse: Building toward evidence-based Africentric interventions in social work practice with African Americans

Social Work

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 243-252

  Gilbert, Dorie J ^a   Harvey, Aminifu R ^b   Belgrave, Faye Z ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African americans; Africentric; Best practices; Culturally relevant interventions; Evidence based

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL WORK;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CULTURE; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL WORK; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 67651166752     PISSN: 00378046     EISSN: 15456846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sw/54.3.243     Document Type: Article

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