Child abuse reporting laws: Time for reform?

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 27-29

  Appelbaum, Paul S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD ABUSE; CHILD WELFARE; COMORBIDITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; LEGAL ASPECT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REGISTER; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0032929085     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.50.1.27     Document Type: Short Survey

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