How Can Social Workers Assess Clinically Meaningful Change in Their Clients? An Example from Children in Care.
Social workers use interventions in the expectation that they will make a positive difference for their clients. However, research about the effectiveness of interventions is typically presented at the group level, which places great demands on social workers' ability to apply such results to the ne...
| Publicado en: | Clinical Social Work Journal Vol. 51; no. 3; pp. 328 - 339 |
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Sep2023
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