Helping adolescents with greater psychosocial needs: Evaluation of a positive youth development program

TheScientificWorldJournal

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages 575-585

  Shek, Daniel T L ^a,b   Sun, Rachel C F ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b KIANG WU NURSING COLLEGE OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Adventure based counseling; Secondary prevention; Subjective outcome evaluation; Volunteer training and services

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENTIALITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HOLISTIC CARE; HUMAN; LEARNING; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; TRAINING;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 45749145149     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2008.85     Document Type: Article

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