Crocodile talk: Attributions of incestuously abused and nonabused sisters

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-34

  Monahan, Kathleen ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attributions; Incest; Sisters

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; COGNITION; FAMILY; GUILT; HUMAN; INCEST; JEALOUSY; SEXUAL ABUSE; SIBLING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FATHER-CHILD RELATIONS; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMANS; INCEST; INFANT; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; JEALOUSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCAPEGOATING; SIBLING RELATIONS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0031021299     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-2134(96)00132-9     Document Type: Article

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