Enhancing psychosocial competence among black women: A psycho-educational group model approach

Social Work with Groups

Volumn 24, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 33-52

  Jones, Lani V ^a   Hodges, Vanessa G ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bibliotherapy; Black women; Culturally specific; Group intervention; Group treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937336796     PISSN: 01609513     EISSN: 15409481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J009v24n03_04     Document Type: Article

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