Maintaining Placement for Troubled and Disruptive Adolescents in Voluntary Residential Care: The Role of Reduced Youth-to-Staff Ratio

Journal of Child and Family Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 337-347

  Friman, Patrick C ^a   Toner, Clark ^b   Soper, Stephen ^a   Sinclair, Jamie ^a   Shanahan, Dave ^a  

^a Girls and Boys Town   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior modification; Continuum of care; Foster care; Residential care; Youth to staff ratios

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007367327     PISSN: 10621024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02234667     Document Type: Article

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