Soft values with hard impact–a review of stress reducing interventions on group and organisational level

Physical Therapy Reviews

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 369-381

  Dalgren, Annika Svensson ^a   Gard, Gunvor Elisabet ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

INTERVENTION; LEARNING; PARTICIPATION; STRESS; WORK ORGANISATION

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864832852     PISSN: 10833196     EISSN: 1743288X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/108331909X12540993897810     Document Type: Review

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