Personal, professional, and social benefits from leisure engagement among social workers: A qualitative exploration.
Despite the increasing attention to social workers' self-care and their provision of leisure-related services, the interplay of leisure and work among social workers remains underexplored. Informed by the Serious Leisure Perspective, this study investigated the experience of social workers engaging...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Social Work Vol. 55; no. 4; pp. 1869 - 1889 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2025
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