The relevance of the structural approach to group work with immigrant and refugee women

Social Work with Groups

Volumn 22, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 11-29

  Breton, Margot ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hispanic women; Immigrants; Refugees; Structural approach; Support group

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992877937     PISSN: 01609513     EISSN: 15409481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J009v22n02_03     Document Type: Article

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