Building a sibling aggression treatment model: Design and development research in action

Research on Social Work Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 575-585

  Caspi, Jonathan ^a  

^a MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Conflict; Design and development research; Empirically based practice; Family; Model development; Rivalry; Sibling; Single system design; Task centered; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349089255     PISSN: 10497315     EISSN: 15527581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049731508316051     Document Type: Conference Paper

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