Validating the Psychosocial Weil-Being Scale (PSWS) with community clients

Social Work in Mental Health

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 15-30

  O’Hare, Thomas ^a   Sherrer, Margaret V ^b   Cutler, Jerry ^b   McCall, Tia May ^b   Dominique, Kristine ^b   Garlick, Kathy ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b South Shore Mental Health Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Evaluation; Instrument; Multidimensional scale; Psychosocial; Schizophrenia; Serious mental illness; Substance abuse

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937384036     PISSN: 15332985     EISSN: 15332993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J200v01n02_02     Document Type: Article

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