Empowering Latino families: Effects of a culturally responsive intervention for low-income immigrant Latino parents on children's behaviors and parental stress

Psychology in the Schools

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 761-775

  Ceballos, Peggy L ^a   Bratton, Sue C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

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EID: 78149312742     PISSN: 00333085     EISSN: 15206807     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pits.20502     Document Type: Article

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