Best practices for preventing or reducing bullying in schools

Children and Schools

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 167-174

  Whitted, Kathryn S ^a   Dupper, David R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Best practices; Bullying; Violence prevention

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746342445     PISSN: 15328759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cs/27.3.167     Document Type: Article

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