Social and transitional identity: Exploring social networks and their significance in a therapeutic community setting

Therapeutic Communities

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 10-20

  Best, David ^c   Lubman, Dan I ^c   Savic, Michael ^c   Wilson, Ann ^a,b   Dingle, Genevieve ^d   Haslam, S Alexander ^a   Haslam, Catherine ^c   Jetten, Jolanda ^c  

^a TURNING POINT ALCOHOL AND DRUG CENTRE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Recovery capital; Social identity; Social networks; Therapeutic communities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898726640     PISSN: 09641866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/TC-04-2013-0007     Document Type: Article

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