The meaning of college for survivors of sexual abuse: Higher education and the older female college student

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 468-473

  LeBlanc, Joyce B ^a   Brabant, Sarah ^a   Forsyth, Craig J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREVALENCE; SEXUAL ABUSE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 0030016862     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0080197     Document Type: Article

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