Changing Perspective: Workers' Perceptions of Inter-Agency Collaboration With Parents With an Intellectual Disability

Journal of Public Child Welfare

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 658-674

  Aunos, Marjorie ^a   Pacheco, Laura ^a  

^a West Montreal Readaptation Center   (Canada)

Author keywords

child welfare; family preservation; organizations systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890654879     PISSN: 15548732     EISSN: 15548740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15548732.2013.852153     Document Type: Article

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