The Effectiveness of PREP with Lower-Income Racial/Ethnic Minority Couples

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy

Volumn 38, Issue SUPPL.1, 2012, Pages 296-307

  Owen, Jesse ^a   Quirk, Kelley ^a   Bergen, Carrie ^b   Inch, Leslie J ^b   France, Tiffany ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b SGA Youth and Family Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MARITAL THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MINORITY GROUP; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RACE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; COMMUNICATION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; COUPLES THERAPY; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; POVERTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84863779472     PISSN: 0194472X     EISSN: 17520606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2012.00294.x     Document Type: Article

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