Sociopolitical development: The missing link in research and policy on adolescents

Beyond Resistance!: Youth Activism and Community Change: New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for America's Youth

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 59-80

  Watts, Roderick J ^a,b   Guessous, Omar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84908930523     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203961001     Document Type: Chapter

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