The social validity of interventions for promoting preschool children's peer interactions

Behaviour Change

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 208-217

  Hamilton, David ^a,b   Zoitas, Aphrodite ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Centre for Developmental Disability Health Victoria   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIOLOGY; TEACHER; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 2542442476     PISSN: 08134839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/bech.20.4.208.29380     Document Type: Article

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