Rape-related PTSD: Issues and interventions

Psychiatric Times

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Kilpatrick, Dean G ^a   Amstadter, Ananda B ^a   Resnick, Heidi S ^a   Ruggiero, Kenneth J ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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