Negative Trends, Possible Selves, and Behavior Change: A Qualitative Study of Juvenile Offenders in Residential Treatment

Qualitative Social Work

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 175-196

  Abrams, Laura S ^a   Aguilar, Jemel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

qualitative methods; self concept; youth offenders

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747871582     PISSN: 14733250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473325005052392     Document Type: Article

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