Personal experience in professional narratives: the role of helpers' families in their work with terror victims.
This article describes research on the narratives of social workers who help terror victims, focusing on the relationship between the helpers' families and their work. Qualitative analysis of three training groups of social workers who are responsible for helping in the event of terror attacks in di...
| Publicado en: | Family Process Vol. 44; no. 2; pp. 203 - 216 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2005
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