Two-Year Impacts of a Universal School-Based Social-Emotional and Literacy Intervention: An Experiment in Translational Developmental Research

Child Development

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 533-554

  Jones, Stephanie M ^a   Brown, Joshua L ^b   Lawrence Aber, J ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACHIEVEMENT; AGGRESSION; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79952999352     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01560.x     Document Type: Article

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