School-based mental health prevention activities for homeless and at-risk youth

Child and Youth Care Forum

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 3-18

  Nabors, Laura ^a   Proescher, Eric ^b   DeSilva, Mochiko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b Illinois School of Professional Psychology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

At risk youth; Elementary school age children; Prevention activities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011696236     PISSN: 10531890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016634702458     Document Type: Article

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