Work-life balance: Practitioner well- being in the social work education curriculum

Social Work Education

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 675-685

  Fouché, Christa ^a   Martindale, Kathy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Life satisfaction; Practitionerwell being; Social work curriculum; Subjectivewell being; Work life balance

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051778474     PISSN: 02615479     EISSN: 14701227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02615479.2011.586566     Document Type: Article

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