Secondary outcomes of a school-based universal resiliency training for adolescents: a cluster randomized controlled

Yuli R Tak1, Marloes Kleinjan, Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff

  • 1Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, P,O, Box 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands. y.tak@bsi.ru.nl.

BMC Public Health
|November 19, 2014
PubMed
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