Modeling Abstinence Education Effectiveness

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International Journal of Psychology & Behavior Analysis Volume 1 (2015), Article ID 1:IJPBA-102, 4 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.15344/2455-3867/2015/102

Research Article

Modeling Abstinence Education Effectiveness

Thomas E. Smith¹, Burcu Atar², Teresa Ferreira³, Pamela Valentine⁴, M.Graça Pereira^5*

¹College of Social Work, The Florida State University, FL 32306-2570, United States
²Department of Educational Measurement and Evaluation, Hacettpe University, Turkey
³The Florida State University, FL 32306-2570, United States
⁴Southeastern Research Institute of Tallahassee, FL 32306-2570, United States
⁵School of Psychology, University of Minho, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal

Corresponding Author Details: M.Graça Pereira, School of Psychology, University of Minho, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal, Tel: +351 253 604228; Fax: +351253 604224; E-mail: gracep@psi.uminho.pt

Received: 22 July 2014; Accepted: 30 October 2014; Published: 05 January 2015

Citation: Smith TE, Atar B, Ferreira T, Valentine P, Pereira MG (2015) Modeling Abstinence Education Effectiveness. Int J Psychol Behav Anal 1: 102. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15344/2455-3867/2015/102

Copyright: © 2015 Smith et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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