Developing Online Family Life Prevention and Education Programs

Family Relations

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 711-727

  Hughes, Robert ^a   Bowers, Jill R ^a   Mitchell, Elissa Thomann ^a   Curtiss, Sarah ^a   Ebata, Aaron T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Family life education; Internet; Online; Prevention; Program development; Program evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869068535     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: 17413729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2012.00737.x     Document Type: Article

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