Service user involvement in social work research: Learning from an adoption research project

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 225-240

  Cossar, Jeanette ^a   Neil, Elsbeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adoption; research and evaluation; service users; user participation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925235797     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: 1468263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bct108     Document Type: Article

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