Residential care: A study of short- and long-term educational effects

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 221-242

  Thompson, Ronald W ^a   Smith, Gail L ^b   Osgood, D Wayne ^b   Dowd, Thomas P ^b   Friman, Patrick C ^b   Daly, Daniel L ^b  

^a Girls and Boys Town   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0030527252     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0190-7409(96)00002-3     Document Type: Article

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