A critically informed perspective of working with resettling refugee groups in Australia

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1759-1776

  Westoby, Peter ^a   Ingamells, Ann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

critical practice; healing recovery; reflective practice; refugee resettlement; sociology; trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956481757     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: 1468263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcp084     Document Type: Article

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