REWARDS AND FRUSTRATIONS OF BEING A SOCIAL WORKER: A QUALITATIVE STUDY.

This paper deals with aspects of actual professional experience of social workers, in order to grasp a framework for professional rewards and frustrations. A qualitative research tool was chosen, life histories, and ten social workers were interviewed. The subjects were women who graduated between t...

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Publicado en:Journal of Social Work Practice Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 211 - 222
Autores principales: de Fátima de Campos Françozo, Maria, Moisés Smeke Cassorla, Roosevelt
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul2004
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