The Day Treatment Program was designed as a teacher operated, school-based cognitive-behavioral program. Initiated to address the needs of behaviorally disordered children, it has a strong parenting component. This study found that the program had a significant treatment effect. Aggressive popular children did not respond to the program as well as aggressive unpopular children.
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