Effectiveness of Sweden’s Contact Family/Person Program for Older Children

Research on Social Work Practice

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 190-200

  Brännström, Lars ^a   Vinnerljung, Bo ^b   Hjern, Anders ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

adolescents; latent class analysis; prevention; propensity score matching; respite care

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922726552     PISSN: 10497315     EISSN: 15527581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049731514524446     Document Type: Article

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