Pictures in the classroom: Can teachers and mental health professionals identify maltreated children's drawings?

Child Abuse Review

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 328-336

  Veltman, Marijcke W M ^b   Browne, Kevin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child drawings; Child maltreatment; Identification; Physical abuse

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142168252     PISSN: 09529136     EISSN: 10990852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1099-0852(200009/10)9:5<328::AID-CAR617>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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