The empowerment group: The heart of the empowerment approach and an antidote to injustice

From Prevention to Wellness Through Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 15-32

  Lee, Judith A B ^a  

^a University of Connecticut School of Social Work   (United States)

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