Different ecological perspectives for evaluating residential care outcomes: Which window for the black box?

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1080-1085

  Palareti, Laura ^a   Berti, Chiara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ecology; Effectiveness; Methodology; Residential care; Theory driven evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70249145745     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2009.07.011     Document Type: Article

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