Guidelines for student threat assessment: Field-test findings

School Psychology Review

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 527-546

  Cornell, Dewey G ^a   Sheras, Peter L ^a   Kaplan, Sebastian ^a   McConville, David ^a   Douglass, Julea ^a   Elkon, Andrea ^a   McKnight, Lela ^a   Branson, Chris ^a   Cole, Joanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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