Personal reflection and experience of a Fulbright Scholar: teaching a mental health course in Vietnam’s changing culture.

This paper documents the experience of developing and teaching a course on mental health for undergraduate social worker students during a semester in Vietnam. Social work is a profession at the early stages of development in Vietnam, requiring much curriculum development. There are over 40 universi...

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Publicado en:Social Work Education Vol. 36; no. 6; pp. 636 - 648
Autor principal: Cohen, Edward
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep2017
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