Asking the customer: Exploring consumers’ views in the generation of social work practice standards

Australian Social Work

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 35-46

  Bland, Robert ^a   Laragy, Carmel ^b   Giles, Ros ^c   Scott, Virginia ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^d Department of Local Government & Regional Development ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Consumer; Participation; Practice Standard

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044908311     PISSN: 0312407X     EISSN: 14470748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03124070500449762     Document Type: Article

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