Establishing and Evaluating the Key Functions of an Interactive Systems Framework Using an Assets-Getting to Outcomes Intervention.
Community practitioners can face difficulty in achieving outcomes demonstrated by prevention science. Building a community practitioner's prevention capacity-the knowledge and skills needed to conduct critical prevention practices-could improve the quality of prevention and its outcomes. The purpose...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Community Psychology Vol. 50; no. 3/4; pp. 295 - 311 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2012
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