Strategies to Address Weight-Based Victimization: Youths' Preferred Support Interventions from Classmates, Teachers, and Parents

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 315-327

  Puhl, Rebecca M ^a   Peterson, Jamie Lee ^a   Luedicke, Joerg ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intervention; Obesity; Overweight; Support; Victimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873722976     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-012-9849-5     Document Type: Article

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