Social Skills Training with Young Offenders: False Expectations and the “Failure of Treatment”

Behavioural Psychotherapy

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1984, Pages 331-341

  Hollin, Clive R ^a   Henderson, Monika ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; OFFENDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; THERAPY;

EID: 0021674918     PISSN: 01413473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0141347300011393     Document Type: Article

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