Integrating cultural competency and empirically-based practices in child welfare services: A model based on community psychiatry field principles of health

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1206-1213

  Bell, Carl C ^a   Wells, Susan J ^b,c   Merritt, Lani M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Child welfare; Community based treatment; Cultural competence; Evidence based practice; Family treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349866338     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2009.08.011     Document Type: Article

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