Reducing children's aggressive and oppositional behaviors in the schools: Preliminary results on the effectiveness of a social-cognitive group intervention program

Child and Family Behavior Therapy

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-32

  Muris, Peter ^a   Meesters, Cor ^b   Vincken, Manon ^b   Eijkelenboom, Anneke ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behavior problems; School children; Social cognitive group intervention

Indexed keywords

EID: 22544456592     PISSN: 07317107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J019v27n01_02     Document Type: Article

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