All Stars Plus: A competence and motivation enhancement approach to prevention

Health Education

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 371-381

  Hansen, William B ^a   Dusenbury, Linda ^a  

^a Tanglewood Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Drugs; Schools; Skills training

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992958023     PISSN: 09654283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09654280410564141     Document Type: Article

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