Entre dos mundos/between two worlds: Youth violence prevention for acculturating latino families

Research on Social Work Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 165-178

  Smokowski, Paul R ^a   Bacallao, Martica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Latinos; Prevention; Program evaluation; Youth violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 59549097653     PISSN: 10497315     EISSN: 15527581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049731508315989     Document Type: Article

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