A self-directed community group for homeless people: Poetry in motion

From Prevention to Wellness Through Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 131-142

  Cohen, Marcia B ^a   Johnson, Julie M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

^b Holy Innocents   (United States)

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