Questioning strategies in interviews with children who may have been sexually abused

Child Welfare

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 5-31

  DeVoe, Ellen R ^a   Faller, Kathleen Coulborn ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD;

CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE;

EID: 0036372273     PISSN: 00094021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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