Self-Efficacy Experiences of Graduate Students Working in a Sport-based Leadership Program at a Youth Prison.
The use of sport as a developmental tool for youth has been widely studied. However, one important segment of the population that has been largely overlooked in this work, likely due to its restrictive and hard to access nature, is youth from juvenile detention centers. Incarcerated youth represent...
| Published in: | Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal Vol. 38; no. 4; pp. 393 - 408 |
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