The FRIENDS emotional health programme: Initial findings from a school-based project

Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 32-37

  Stallard, Paul ^a   Simpson, Neil ^b   Anderson, Sue ^b   Hibbert, Sarah ^a   Osborn, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b Bath and North East Somerset Primary Care Trust ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive behaviour therapy; Emotional problems; School based; Universal intervention

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO MENTAL ILLNESS; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CHILD; COGNITIVE THERAPY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAXATION TRAINING; SELF ESTEEM;

EID: 33846902832     PISSN: 1475357X     EISSN: 14753588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-3588.2006.00421.x     Document Type: Article

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