Children and adolescents exposed to community violence: A mental health perspective for school psychologists

School Psychology Review

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 86-101

  Mazza, James J ^a   Overstreet, Stacy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NONE

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