“Truth and reconciliation”: Workers’ fear of conflict in groups

Social Work with Groups

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 25-41

  Kendler, Helene ^a  

^a Aurora Actors Fund of America   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict in groups; Descriptive differences; Workers fears

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983760252     PISSN: 01609513     EISSN: 15409481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J009v25n03_03     Document Type: Article

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