Mediation, Incremental Validity, and Novel Intervention Development: Introduction to a Special Issue on Youth Anxiety and Related Problems

Child and Youth Care Forum

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 509-515

  Weems, Carl F ^a   Stickle, Timothy R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Incremental validity; Mediation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869862927     PISSN: 10531890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10566-012-9191-9     Document Type: Article

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