Using and building family strengths to promote youth development

The Youth Development Handbook: Coming of Age in American Communities

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 170-192

  Bradshaw, Catherine P ^a   Garbarino, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781452232560.n8     Document Type: Chapter

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