Do social information-processing models explain aggressive behaviour by children with mild intellectual disabilities in residential care?

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 801-812

  van Nieuwenhuijzen, M ^a   de Castro, B O ^a   van der Valk, I ^a   Wijnroks, L ^a   Vermeer, A ^a   Matthys, W ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Externalizing behaviour; Intellectual disabilities; Social cognition; Social information processing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; AGGRESSIVENESS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS MODEL; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY; VERBAL HOSTILITY;

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MENTAL RETARDATION; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NETHERLANDS; RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33749132795     PISSN: 09642633     EISSN: 13652788     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.2005.00773.x     Document Type: Article

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