Reading and social skills programmes had limited effectiveness on behavioural maladjustment in primary school children

  • Kazdin, Alan E PhD, ABPP

  • Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Hundert J, Boyle MH, Cunningham CE, et al. Helping children adjust—a Tri-Ministry Study: II. Program effects. J Child Psychol Psychiat 1999 Oct;40:1061–73.

Sources of funding: Ontario Ministry of Education; Ontario Ministry of Health; Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services; and 11 Ontario school boards.

For correspondence: Dr M H Boyle, Centre for Children at Risk, McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences and Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation, Patterson Building, Chedoke Division, Hamilton, ON L8N 3Z5, Canada. Fax +1 905 574 6665.

Evidence-Based Mental Health 3(2):p 46, May 2000.
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