Children's expressed emotions when disclosing maltreatment

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1026-1036

  Sayfan, Liat ^a   Mitchell, Emilie B ^a   Goodman, Gail S ^a   Eisen, Mitchell L ^b   Qin, Jianjian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child maltreatment; Children; Disclosure; Emotion expression; Trauma related psychopathology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CRYING; DEPRESSION; DISSOCIATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MENTAL DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTRAUMA;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 56549099212     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2008.03.004     Document Type: Article

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