Measurement of aggression in children and adolescents

Aggression: Psychiatric Assessment and Treatment

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 267-292

  Cyrulnik, Shana E ^a   Marks, David J ^a   Newcorn, Jeffrey H ^b   Halperin, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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