Victim help seeking: Differences between intimate terrorism and situational couple violence

Family Relations

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 427-439

  Leone, Janel M ^a   Johnson, Michael P ^b   Cohan, Catherine L ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coercive control; Consequences of violence; Domestic violence; Help seeking; Intimate partner violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 36849018499     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: 17413729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2007.00471.x     Document Type: Article

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