Working globally, thinking locally: Providing psychosocial intervention training in Sierra Leone

Clinical Psychology Forum

Volumn 1, Issue 258, 2014, Pages 41-45

  White, Ross ^a   Ebert, Beate ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b Commit and Act ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTION; SIERRA LEONE; THINKING;

EID: 84903550420     PISSN: 17475732     EISSN: 23968664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.53841/bpscpf.2014.1.258.41     Document Type: Article

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