Mental health and older women: The challenges for social perspectives and community capacity building

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1488-1502

  Fawcett, Barbara ^a   Reynolds, Jill ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

community capacity building; Mental health; older women; strengths based approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955011754     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: 1468263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcp042     Document Type: Article

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