Building social responsibility through family group conferencing

Social Work with Groups

Volumn 24, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 67-87

  Macgowan, Mark J ^a   Pennell, Joan ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Family group conferencing; Family group decision making; Social responsibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937345828     PISSN: 01609513     EISSN: 15409481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J009v24n03_06     Document Type: Article

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