Residential immersive life skills programs for youth with disabilities: service providers' perceptions of change processes.
Background: Residential immersive life skills (RILS) programs are designed to equip youth with physical disabilities with the foundational life skills required to assume adult roles. The objective was to determine RILS service providers' perceptions of the active ingredients of the intervention chan...
| Publicado en: | Disability & Rehabilitation Vol. 37; no. 26; pp. 2418 - 2429 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2015
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