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This research was supported in part by grants from the New York State Department of Education and the W. T. Grant Foundation, for which the authors express their gratitude. We also thank the children, parents, teachers, and group leaders who participated in this study at Allendale-Columbia, Brooks Hill, Harley, Iroquois, Rogers and Scribner Road schools, and Bohdan S. Lotyczewski who contributed to the data analyses. John C. Guare is now at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Pedro-Carroll, J.L., Cowen, E.L., Hightower, A.D. et al. Preventive intervention with latency-aged children of divorce: A replication study. Am J Commun Psychol 14, 277–290 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00911175
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