Understanding school personnel's resistance to adopting schoolwide positive behavior support at a universal level of intervention

Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 256-269

  Lohrmann, Sharon ^a   Forman, Susan ^b   Martin, Stacy ^a   Palmieri, Mark ^b  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intervention adoption; Schoolwide PBS; Universal level interventions

Indexed keywords

EID: 51649102343     PISSN: 10983007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1098300708318963     Document Type: Article

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