Building resilience in a children's home: Results from an action research project

Child and Family Social Work

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 357-368

  Houston, Stan ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action research; Residential child care; Resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955131362     PISSN: 13567500     EISSN: 13652206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2206.2010.00684.x     Document Type: Article

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