Secondary school students' preferences for school counsellors to be of the same ethnic origin as themselves

Counselling and Psychotherapy Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 210-218

  Chan, Stephanie ^a   Quinn, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Black and minority ethnic students; Ethnic origin; Ethnicity; Schools counselling

Indexed keywords

EID: 75249092972     PISSN: 14733145     EISSN: 17461405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733140903031101     Document Type: Article

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