Church-Based Exchanges of Informal Social Support Among African Americans

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 9 Số 1 - Trang 53-62 - 2017
Robert Joseph Taylor1, Linda M. Chatters2, Karen D. Lincoln3, Amanda Toler Woodward4
1School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
2School of Public Health and Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
3Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
4School of Social Work, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

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