Social Work from Inside and between Complex Systems: Perspectives on Person-in-Environment for Today's Social Work

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2414-2430

  Green, David ^a   McDermott, Fiona ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

New science; Person in environment; Social work theory; Transdisciplinary practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651293171     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: 1468263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcq056     Document Type: Article

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