A meta-analysis of classroom-wide interventions to build social skills: Do they work?

School Psychology Review

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 242-256

  January, Alicia M ^a   Casey, Rita J ^a   Paulson, Daniel ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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