Adolescents with learning disabilities who show sexually inappropriate or abusive behaviours: Development of a research study

Child Abuse Review

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 305-314

  Fyson, Rachel ^a   Eadie, Tina ^b   Cooke, Pam ^a  

^a Ann Craft Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Juvenile sexual abuse; Learning disability

Indexed keywords

EID: 32544436214     PISSN: 09529136     EISSN: 10990852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/car.810     Document Type: Article

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