Stepfamily Education: Benefits of a Group-Formatted Intervention

The Family Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 234-240

  Skogrand, Linda ^a   Torres, Eliza ^a   Higginbotham, Brian J ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

group interventions; program evaluation; relationship education; remarriage; stepfamily

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954574696     PISSN: 10664807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1066480710372479     Document Type: Article

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