Integrating Service Learning and Difficult Dialogues Pedagogy to Advance Social Justice Training

The Counseling Psychologist

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 919-945

  Toporek, Rebecca L ^a   Worthington, Roger L ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

counselor training; difficult dialogues; poverty; social justice; unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907502423     PISSN: 00110000     EISSN: 15523861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011000014545090     Document Type: Article

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