'Play skills' for shy children: Development of a social skills facilitated play early intervention program for extremely inhibited preschoolers

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 223-237

  Coplan, Robert J ^a   Schneider, Barry H ^b   Matheson, Adrienne ^a   Graham, Allison ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behavioural inhibition; Early intervention; Social skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955573552     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.668     Document Type: Article

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