Brief Report: Experimental Effects of Manipulating Attributional Information about Challenging Behaviour

Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 295-301

  Noone, Stephen J ^a   Jones, Robert S P ^a   Hastings, Richard P ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attributions; Challenging behaviours; Experimental study; Service culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842587416     PISSN: 13602322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-3148.2003.00171.x     Document Type: Article

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