Social Support and Sense of Program Belonging Discriminate Between Youth-Staff Relationship Types in Juvenile Correction Settings

Child and Youth Care Forum

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 481-494

  Marsh, Shawn C ^a   Evans, William P ^a   Williams, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Delinquency; Environment; Relationships; Social support

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649925724     PISSN: 10531890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10566-010-9120-8     Document Type: Article

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