Integrating theoretical, measurement, and intervention models of youth social competence

Clinical Psychology Review

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 327-347

  Dirks, Melanie A ^a   Treat, Teresa A ^a   Robin Weersing, V ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; JURISPRUDENCE; JUVENILE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SOCIAL COMPETENCE; SOCIOMETRIC STATUS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; COGNITION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIALIZATION; SOCIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 33847400481     PISSN: 02727358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2006.11.002     Document Type: Review

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