The pyramid club primary school-based intervention: Evaluating the impact on children's social-emotional health

Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 115-121

  Ohl, Maddie ^a,b   Mitchell, Kathryn ^a   Cassidy, Tony ^c   Fox, Pauline ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b National Pyramid Trust   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Preventive intervention; School based; Social emotional health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CONDUCT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; HYPERACTIVITY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 49449083996     PISSN: 1475357X     EISSN: 14753588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-3588.2007.00476.x     Document Type: Article

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