Intellectual disability and anxiety in children: A group-based parent skills-training intervention

Behaviour Change

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 204-212

  Ciechomski, Lisa D ^a,c   Jackson, Kylie L ^b   Tonge, Bruce J ^a   King, Neville J ^b   Heyne, David A ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY NEUROSIS; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHILD; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FAMILY THERAPY; FEAR; GRIEF; GROUP THERAPY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE; PARENT; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; REINFORCEMENT; RELAXATION TRAINING; REVIEW; SCHOOL; SKILL; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; STRESS; SUPPORT GROUP; TRAINING;

EID: 0035783828     PISSN: 08134839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/bech.18.4.204     Document Type: Review

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