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18 - Prevention of Adolescent Risk Behavior and Promotion of Positive Youth Development

A Beneficial Action Approach

from Implementation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2017

Moshe Israelashvili
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Tel-Aviv University
John L. Romano
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
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