A collaboratively designed child mental health service model: Multiple family groups for urban children with conduct difficulties

Research on Social Work Practice

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 664-674

  McKay, Mary M ^a   Gopalan, Geetha ^a   Franco, Lydia ^a   Dean Assael, Kara ^a   Chacko, Anil ^a   Jackson, Jerrold M ^a   Fuss, Ashley ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

children and youth; collaborative research; longitudinal study; mental health services; multiple family group; outcomes; prevention programs; urban families

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054759786     PISSN: 10497315     EISSN: 15527581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049731511406740     Document Type: Article

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