Updating Our Approach to Parent Training. I: The Case Against Targeting Noncompliance

Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 299-318

  Cavell, Timothy A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Children; Intervention; Noncompliance; Parents

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346347917     PISSN: 09695893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clipsy.8.3.299     Document Type: Article

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