Vocational training and employment attainment among substance abuse recovering individuals within a communal living environment

Therapeutic Communities

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 42-47

  Gomez, Daisy ^a   Jason, Leonard A ^a   Contreras, Richard ^b   DiGangi, Julia ^a   Ferrari, Joseph R ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Oxford House; Quantitative research; School; Substance dependence; Therapeutic communities; Vocational training

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907146283     PISSN: 09641866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/TC-03-2014-0008     Document Type: Article

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