Responding to global shifts in social work through the language of service user and service user involvement

International Journal of Social Welfare

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 375-384

  Heffernan, Kristin ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective identity; Marginalised; Service user; Service user involvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349980665     PISSN: 13696866     EISSN: 14682397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2397.2008.00614.x     Document Type: Article

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