Responding to people sleeping rough: Dilemmas and opportunities for social work

Australian Social Work

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 330-345

  Parsell, Cameron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Homelessness; Intervention; Social Work Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052575808     PISSN: 0312407X     EISSN: 14470748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0312407X.2010.538705     Document Type: Article

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