Mental health and social and emotional learning: Evidence, principles, tensions, balances

Advances in School Mental Health Promotion

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-17

  Weare, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Mental health; Schools; Social and emotional learning; Young people

Indexed keywords

EID: 82155167977     PISSN: 1754730X     EISSN: 20498535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1754730X.2010.9715670     Document Type: Article

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