Universal Interventions: Fully Exploring Their Impacts and Potential to Produce Population-Level Impacts

Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 40-67

  Greenberg, Mark T ^a   Abenavoli, Rachel ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

education; mental health promotion; methods of analysis; universal prevention

Indexed keywords

EID: 85003816175     PISSN: 19345747     EISSN: 19345739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19345747.2016.1246632     Document Type: Article

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