A controlled trial of the making choices program: Six-month follow-up

Research on Social Work Practice

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 165-176

  Fraser, Mark W ^a   Lee, Jung Sook ^b   Kupper, Lawrence L ^c   Day, Steven H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Cognitive behavioral; Intervention; Prevention; Quantitative; Quasi experiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 79751514757     PISSN: 10497315     EISSN: 15527581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049731510386626     Document Type: Article

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