Discharge due to running away from residential treatment: Youth and setting effects

Residential Treatment for Children and Youth

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 327-343

  Eisengart, Julie ^b   Martinovich, Zoran ^a   Lyons, John S ^b  

^a Mental Health Services and Policy Program   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Outcomes; Provider variation; Residential treatment; Runaway

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449602780     PISSN: 0886571X     EISSN: 15410358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08865710802174418     Document Type: Article

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