Effective practice: Social work's long history of concern about outcomes

Australian Social Work

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 3-13

  Gibbons, Jill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

effectiveness; empirical practice; outcomes; social work research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937336449     PISSN: 0312407X     EISSN: 14470748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03124070108414328     Document Type: Article

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