Universal social competence promotion programme in school: Does it work for children with low socio-economic background?

Advances in School Mental Health Promotion

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 51-60

  Holsen, Ingrid ^a   Iversen, Anette Christine ^a   Smith, Brian H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Research Impact   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation; School achievement; Social competence; Socio economic status; Universal programme

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867947173     PISSN: 1754730X     EISSN: 20498535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1754730X.2009.9715704     Document Type: Article

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