Psychosocial characteristics discriminating between battered women and other women psychiatric inpatients

Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 144-151

  Poirier, Norma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

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EID: 0034288830     PISSN: 10783903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mpn.2000.110748     Document Type: Article

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