Improving the Social and Emotional Climate of Classrooms: A Clustered Randomized Controlled Trial Testing the RULER Approach

Prevention Science

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 77-87

  Rivers, Susan E ^a   Brackett, Marc A ^a   Reyes, Maria R ^b   Elbertson, Nicole A ^a   Salovey, Peter ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional literacy; Positive youth development; Social and emotional learning; The RULER Approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872613834     PISSN: 13894986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11121-012-0305-2     Document Type: Article

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