"A burden in your heart": Lessons of disclosure from female preadolescent and adolescent survivors of sexual abuse

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1415-1432

  Staller, Karen M ^a   Nelson Gardell, Debra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

CSAAS; Disclosure; Qualitative methods; Sexual abuse

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CONFIDENTIALITY; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 27944471800     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2005.06.007     Document Type: Article

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