The meld program: Promoting personal change and social justice through a year-long multicultural group experience

Social Work with Groups

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 3-20

  Alvarez, Ann Rosegrant ^a   Cabbil, Lila M ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity curriculum; Facilitator interventions; Group stages; Leadership training; Multicultural groups; Social action

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937336052     PISSN: 01609513     EISSN: 15409481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J009v24n01_02     Document Type: Article

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