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Teaching Social Work with Groups: Integrating Didactic, Experiential and Reflective Learning

Buetta WarkentinDepartment of Social Work, Booth University College, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CanadaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 233-243 | Received 17 Sep 2015, Accepted 20 Nov 2015, Published online: 19 Jul 2016

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